My youngest daughter who is seven and in the second grade has a hard time going to school. Last week was the first week and she missed two days because she was sick. The first day that she missed she called me about 10:00 in the morning crying saying she had a stomach ache. When I went to get her she seemed fine. I asked her if she was really sick or just sick of school (on the 3rd day?) She smiled and said sick of school. So I told her that is she was going to miss school, she was going to have to go home and work. I put her to work pulling weeds.
She came in after that, layed down and fell asleep. I was beginning to think she really was sick if she was sleeping and took her temp. Sure enough, she was running a fever.
Anyway, after missing two days last week and the long weekend, it was hard for her to go back today. She cried on the way to school which just breaks my heart, but I have to make her go. I've promised her if she goes 10 days in a row, she can miss the eleventh and we'll do something fun. She already has planned on doing tie-dye t-shirts. I was hoping she'd pick something that didn't cost money.
My daughter isn't liking school
September 5th, 2006 at 05:33 pm
September 5th, 2006 at 06:06 pm 1157479587
September 5th, 2006 at 06:39 pm 1157481565
While I most certainly feel that pushing thru something hard is useful, I do not feel 6 or 7 hours a day for an 8 year old is neccessary...
Do look into just what is bothering her about school, if you are dead set on sending her (and you are in the majority there) see if there is something in particular, bullies and what not...
but most of all think about how few years of experience your daughter has to help her through what is really a difficult time for most kids......and think how much she learned pulling weeds, and how much more she could learn from you about what she will really need in life..balancing a checkbook, saying no, cooking/baking/price research, computer skills, finding the cheapest way to tiedie, and possibly selling the results to break even....
September 5th, 2006 at 07:53 pm 1157485999
Personally, I would look for another reward than missing another day of school. Somehow it strikes me as sending the wrong message. Just my opinion.
September 5th, 2006 at 10:05 pm 1157493956
She had seemed fine in the earlier grades but she had an awful lot of stomach aches, and I found out later there had been some bullying going on, so definitely check up on that, too.
Maybe a year of homeschool would be something you might consider if she doesn't settle down into a comfortable school life. I enjoyed it a lot, so did my daughter, and it wasn't hard like I thought it would be. Some children just aren't ready to be in public school so young. Some children never are meant to be in public school at all. The media tries to tell us our kids are growing up faster, but they are still little kids. 7 is young.
September 6th, 2006 at 04:06 pm 1157558819
Homeschooling is not for everyone. Sometimes we have to work around the situation we are in.
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am 1167737624
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