Today, I've realized that my son probably won't be returning to head start. I've asked him every school day for the past (nearly) 2 weeks and he keeps telling me no. He says that he doesn't like it and that he doesn't want to go. Of course, I was only letting him go so that he could be around other kids and get that social interaction that I know he needs right now. But I planned to homeschool him even before I was pregnant with him, so if he doesn't want to go back to school I'm certainly not going to make him.
The last time he went to school, they had a field trip to a different head start that was having a "Fall Festival". After I picked him up that day from his head start he wouldn't talk to me about what happened that day. He wanted the bag of candy they loaded him up with, and screamed in anger when I said , "you have to eat some dinner before you have candy". But every time I asked him about his day he just wouldn't answer me or tell me anything. He hasn't wanted to go back to school at all since then. Sometimes he laughs and says no, and sometimes he screams and says no. Other times, he just calmly tells me that he doesn't like it.
This is the hard thing about sending him off to spend time with tons of strangers. If something happened to him, he's not telling me. There's no way to know how he has been treated while I wasn't there, or if someone hurt him. But I try to stay positive and feel like if someone did hurt him he would tell me. I really hope so anyway. Either way, if he doesn't want to go, then he just isn't going. End of story!
I hope everyone is having a magickal Full Moon.
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