RE: Re: What does your 6 year old hate about school? PAM

[Guest guest]

Pam,

Thanks for responding. Sounds like

my son in allot of ways. How did you get the small private school, your

choice or did diagnosis/advocate/IEP etc help you?

Denel

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Pamela

Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011

4:51 PM

Subject: ( ) Re:

What does your 6 year old hate about school?

My daughter (13) hates school too. She has been a

problem to get

to school since preschool. She is even in a small private

school...hates it.

I think one problem is that social rejection/criticism leads

to depressed feelings and anxiety. This is one problem that

is hard to fix.

Another problem is my daughter prefers to focus on her

interests and finds school so BORING ...everything

gets boring quickly.

My daughter loves to add to collections and read about

her interests, stop her and she is EXPLOSIVE.

I have a behavior plan in place, if she hits me after

school, no computer for that night. And if she

hits again ..no TV ...she is old enough to go to

her room and draw or something. When she was younger

I didn't dare take away TV otherwise she would be

all over me (aggressive).

I think there is some dopamine issues (either not enough

and feels bored or perhaps too much and easily explosive).

Zoloft helped reduce anxiety alittle.

I am still trying to figure out what medication will

help with this issue of extreme stress/boredom followed

by explosive behavior at me.

I don't have any school solutions.

Pam

Pam

boe

) or e

>

>

>

> My son hates school, everything about school.. the social contacts, the

> amount of work, too many kids in the class, not enough breaks for him to

> " escape " the chaos. The cafeteria smells, he doesn't like the

kids or the

> teachers etc etc etc.

>

>

>

> BUT when you talk to his teachers he is " fine " ! He appears to

have fun, and

> interact. He comes out of school and explodes at the seams, verbally all

> over me, aggressively like a maniac sometimes. As his mom I of course know

> what this is. But we are stuck in a district that refuses to acknowledge

> it. Im a very experienced mom, but fighting an impossible battle with our

> district. Advocates and IEPs later, after 3 hospitalizations, they remove

> him from the Therapeutic

School with 4 kids they

mainstream him into a class

> of 20 kids!

>

>

>

> Can some of you tell me what your kids struggle with in school, how you

> explain it, fight for it etc?

>