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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does she "rule the roost" at home?   Interrupt conversations, etc?  It may be a control issue.  As a teacher, here is a piece of advice: Do not EVER used the "bored" word as an excuse.[/quote]

If your implying my child is controlling at home, she is most definitely not. For the most part, she is a well behaved child. She just gets distracted pretty easily when getting her to focus on something at home. And not just when I am requesting her to do something. She might ask for a snack, and if I send her to retrieve it and she notices a book on the table she likes, she will stop to read it, and forget about the snack.

I'm not using boredom as an excuse. I was inquiring with the teacher only because my daughter repeatedly used the word in describing her day. I just wasn't sure if my child knew the right context for that word.  A child can be legitimately bored in class if they are covering topics which she already knows and has no interest in (as I said before I had that issue as a child). But I don't want to jump to any conclusions about my child's ability. She very well could care less about learning the topics. Or she might not care for the teacher. She had minimal issues with focus in preschool and prek at the same school, so I'm a bit concerned. My child enjoys learning in other capacities (visiting museums, watching educational shows, reading on her own). And it doesn't help that the teacher didn't make it a point to let me know about her issues until I inquired. If she is truly avoiding doing her work in class and spending more time socializing, don't you think I should have been informed ?[/quote]

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