1st Day of School

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Gage was excited to be going into 1st grade after 2 yrs in K-5 and he

had an awesome day until bedtime came. I had watching him carefully

after he came home and he still seemed to be doing wonderfully. It

has happened before that he holds it together during the school hours

and would have a meltdown sometime in the evening.

I still haven't recovered from it. He was freaking out, scared to

death when I tried to put him in his bed. He was out of control for

over an hour and then I had to call my husband upstairs to take over

as my nerves were shot by then.

He still woke up at 1:00 am and ended up in our bed and snuggled as

close as what he could possibly get the rest of the night. At first,

I wanted to give in and allow him to have the sleepover that he

requested but I was afraid that we would end up back at square 1 with

him not even going into his bedroom so I held my ground but feel so

guilty.

This morning after waking him up, he was scared to death to go to the

bathroom by himself and in our home!! He wanted me to stand in the

bathroom. I did stand in the doorway but kept walking 3 ft away to

the kitchen and he would again freak out that I had left him.

What do you guys do in a situation like this? I know that we will

talk about it today at the psychiatrist's office. I am second

guessing myself that maybe I should have let him sleep with me last

night and maybe he wouldn't have been so traumatized.

But when I took him to school his aide was waiting and he went right

off with her and seemed to be fine but then again...

Sue