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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Second grader here, and the past two years I kept thinking it would get better but it hasn’t. DS is still complaining that he doesn’t want to go to school. Still tells me his day is boring…. Still runs around like a wild animal when I pick him up. When I ask what he did that day, he barely remembers anything. I think it doesn’t help that his friends from last year aren’t in class this year.

He thrives over the summer. Always learns a ton, happy, and we meet his activity and downtime needs.

I just feel like school is just making him unhappy. Like, I see this amazing kid who blossoms over the summer and starts this steady downward spiral when the school year begins.

I wish school could be more individualized or at least less boring. I wish my kid would love school, or at least not dislike it so much![/quote]

I have a second grade daughter and could have written this post.  She loved preschool and kindergarten, but it's been downhill since then.  I feel badly that she dislikes school so much at 7, and while I don't validate her complaints that school is boring, when I see what she brings home I understand where she's coming from.  I think she would find school more meaningful if there was more project based learning and more challenge.  Heck, I think even spelling tests would be nice.[/quote]

I think it would do her a lot of good if you validated her feelings but offered some sort of consolation /meaning for going to school[/quote]

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