I have some good news, and I have some bad news, folks.
The good news is that Jonah loves school. Like, excited to go, runs into class without looking back at me, and when he’s off for a milliion days in a row because of the Polar Whoretex Vortex, asks to go back.
The bad news is that since he’s started school, he’s been a holy terror at home. Holy. TERROR. He’s whiny, grumpy, fussy, and completely unreasonable. He would rather fuss and scream about something before asking. He gets set off by little things and has a hard time calming down.
What has happened to my easy-going boy?
My guess is, since Joshua grew horns and red eyes for about 8 weeks after he started kindergarten (and ohemegee you have to click that link to see how CUTE AND LITTLE he was! And also, that people once actually commented on this blog.) and since Sophie DIDN’T SLEEP (that. was. horrible.) for about 8 weeks after she started preschool, that we are just in for a few weeks of grumpy transition time.
I’m trying not to freak out about it…but it has made my life much more difficult these past couple weeks. He even threw a giant fit at speech therapy yesterday (which he had to miss two weeks in a row because of the aforementioned weather tramp) which he has not done since like, his 2nd session 8 months ago. Because he LOVES speech. His SLP was like….”Uh, who is this kid?” It was bad.
So, who has advice? What should I do? Toddler tranquilizers? Hypnosis? Drink lots of Mountain Dew and eat lots of chewy Sweet Tarts (for me, not him) until this too passes? Please tell me you’ve all been here before and we’ll both come out ok!
I’ve personally never had this problem (sorry). But I have lots of friends that said their kids were terrors the first few weeks that school starts. It’s a huge transition for them. Hopefully this ridiculous snow comes to an end. And he will go everyday and get used to it. Hang in there!
My son is a few months younger than jonah and he had a rough transition to preschool. He did fine at home but he had a hard time at school. I seriously questioned whether we should keep him in school. That lasted about 2 months and then it got better overnight. We’ve had almost no problems since then. hang in there!
My 2 yo daughter just started preschool, so I’m going to have to keep an eye out for this. I know when I was in school, I was a perfect angel in class, but oh boy when I got home, I was awful. My oldest (7) is just like me in that respect, it’s like she uses all of her manners and sweetness up at school, so only the grumpy girl is left for us. yippee
Molly is Ms Moody, so it’s hard to say, but she definately went through some of this!
I hate change. He gets it honestly.
Also, as to comments, really, what’s UP with that? Same thing over at RLR!