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Kindergarten
Moms, I need so advise. My son is 5 years old and is in all day kindergarten. School started in August 2007 and for the past 2 weeks he's been complaining of a stomach ache and crying in the mornings. I checked with his teacher and he's fine in class and there are no problems with other kids. Any advise on why this may be happening after 6 months ?
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Maybe there's a child in the class whom he doesn't like, or who picks on him. Or some other problem he can't handle himself. Perhaps you can fish for it by asking him to tell you one good thing and one bad thing that happened in school each day. If the problem is another child who has recently moved to his "table", maybe it could be solved just by having the teacher change all the kids' seats.
My son is also 5 yo and in all day kindergarten. He loves school and after a whole weekend home alone with me he is anxious to go back to his friends. For a while he can to an understanding that if he was sick he AND mom got to stay home and he got pampered all day. Now sometimes around Wed or Thurs if he doesn't want to get out of bed he will claim to have a tummy ache or soar throat.
So my new tactic is, unless he is obviously running a temp or throughing up, to tell him he has to try going to school and if he is still sick that the nurse will call daddy to come pick him up and take him home. The stay home with daddy part usually nixes the situation. His dad's responce is always "Are you bleeding?" He doesn't pamper. So far no calls from the nurse to come get him. I think your little one may just be looking for that 'mommy medicine'. Once he gets busy at school he forgets you until he gets home.
My son really didn't enjoy kindergarten for a long time. I think he was actually bored. If your son already knows his colors and letters and such, he may just being going nuts reviewing it. If so, I'd talk to the teacher about alternative activities he can do during the lessons, or maybe he can be an assistant to the teacher for the lessons or sort papers, or other things that help him feel like an important part. Kids that are ahead of the lesson plans can feel like no one is listening to their needs because they have already mastered it and the teacher may think there is no need to extend special effort toward that student. Send him with some interesting books to read when he has extra time, or a fun talent to share for show and tell like a joke or a story.
I just went through this with my kindergartenr and he never wanted to go to school. I ended up going in and talking with a few teachers and come to find out there was a kid that was picking on him but by the time my son got home he never was able to tell because he was so up set. Please don't give up. try and see if you could stand back so he does not know that you are there and see if you can pick up on somethings, there is something going on =. Maybe he doesn't like his teacher or something silly happened and that is up settine him hope this helps