I was on previously as peacemongermom. I just wanted to clear that up, on the off chance anyone remembered my situation. I'm not trying to be sneaky.
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DS is 5 and starting at a Montessori kindergarten in three weeks. He wants to no part of it. Kindergarten in general that is. His complaints are there are no toys and he wants to play all day, not do work and learn. Oohhh boy is he going to wrong the place. But that's how most kindergartens are now, there aren't toys and they don't play anymore. Even if I were to consider a different school I don't think that's the real problem.
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He visited his classroom in May, was supposed to spend half a day but because he wanted to stay, spent the whole day. He came home excited, he told me he liked it but the excitement faded and was replaced by resistance. He has told me he hates, it already, it's going to be terrible, he doesn't want to go, he wont get out of bed, etc. I don't want him to start his school career off like this.
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Any ideas on how I can deal with this?
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A little background is DS attending this same school, same teacher, same primary class for about 6 months when he was three. At that time he qualified for a special Ed preschool through the public system. He has no definitive dx, it is believed he may have a mild case asperger's or ADD and possibly is gifted. He needed speech and occupational therapy, which he would get for free there. It was a hard decision but I took him out and placed him in the special ed preschool. He loved it. I know it didn't challenge him and he didn't learn much at all. Most of what he knows " academic wise" I taught him. Toward the end of the school year  his teacher told me he was bored there by that time though it was the end of the year.
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So here we are, he spent almost a year in half going to " school" that didn't challenge and he mostly played and he's about to start school where he is expected to concentrate and put effort in and do meaningful work. He doesn't want to work, he wants to play. Any thoughts on how I can help transition him toward work and actually liking it, as that is the whole point.
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