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[quote=Anonymous]DS is in first grade this year, and he throws a fit in the morning. He doesn't want to go to school because, in his words, "it's boring." I have to literally drag him out of the house.

All his life, he's never wanted to go to school. But I just (naively) assumed that after YEARS of daycare, preschool, and kindergarten, that he'd have....well...learned to suck it up a bit by first grade. We've never once wavered, never once said, "you're bored? Okay, stay home!" But no. He insists on fighting the fight every day, still, even though we make him go every day regardless. What do I do with this? I'm exhausted looking at another school year of tantrum mornings.

The silver lining is that he does quite well once he's at school. Every teacher, including the current one, reports a happy, engaged child who behaves in an age-appropriate manner while he is actually at school. In fact, if I mention the tantrums he throws about going in the morning, the teacher looks at me like I have 9 heads because the child she sees is very cooperative and pleasant. And academically, he performs right on grade level, so it's not that he's not bored because he's brilliant and needs to skip a grade. I guess he just really doesn't like school. And I feel for that at some level, but...life is full of boring things we all have to do.

For the last two years he has had AMAZING teachers, he's been lucky enough to land in the classes all the parents want their children to land in. If it was one year or one teacher or one class I'd get it, but this is systemic with this kid. I'm not sure how to make the scenario any better for him.

Anyone else BTDT?[/quote]

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