does not want to go to school

[momofweewerfs]

my 4 year old son who starts jk in september is already saying that "I is not going to school anymore" ( he went to 1 year of pre k last year and cried every morning when i dropped him off. ( but only until i left the parking lot, then he was fine)
We started to read to him everyday the book, the Kissing Hand, about a racon named Chester who was afraid to go to school.

Does any one have any ideas to help him out. He is in the same classroom as last year with the same teachers.

[Madre]

Just wondering, but do you need to send him to school because you work outside the home?

[momofweewerfs]

I do work outside of the house, but just partime about 15 hours a wek. Jake needs to go to school, because of his sensory integration, he needs things to be very scheduled. I can't give him the strict scheduling everyday at home that he needs.( i have other children at home as well) He only goes mon, wed and fri. Because the class sizes are very small, they are only 8 currently enroll into his class, he does very well once he is in the classroom. if he wasn't going to jk, the staff at the children's centre ( where he goes for ot) wanted to enroll him in the jk program there.

[Madre]

I think I would just keep encouraging him in a positive way and maybe discouraging the constant expressing of "I don't want to go to school". It's just a thought, but maybe when he says this, you could ask him to name one good thing that he might like about school i.e. a positive for a negative. Expressing the negative just seems to reinforce it. [hug]

[Madre]

I sent you a pm. :)