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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 536936" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>The thing is, trying to analyse J's tantrum in such a situation is a bilt like trying to analyse the whims of a mad king.... it doesn't bear much fruit. It's not just the food. I don't even know that it was mainly the food. J is stressed, exhausted, maybe some even word I don't even have vocab for, after school, holding it together all day with a teacher who down'st, it seems, make ANY special allowances for him and is on his back punitively much of the time. I'm sure he is a bit hungry, but this is the only time he will go crazy like that over food. Generally he eats very little, just enough for his needs. I think it was even just the way I presented the snack I DID have - cheese and water - because I said something like "I'm afraid it's only cheese and water", which immediately set him off whining and crying. I should have said, "Hey, J! Look!" - but then even that might have set him off because really it wasn't just the food. On the other hand, eating the food did change his mood around - but I think that was also because I was doing what he wanted, going to the boulangerie he suggested. You see what I mean about the mad king...</p><p>I think what it comes down to is that he is in a school that is not really right for him, apart from the small numbers. I know this will seem odd, probably, but I so wish we could avoid school, or school didn't exist, or something... yes, yes, hippie-ville.... but it seems like such a grand, pressurised waste of time to me FOR THIRTEEN YEARS!! Oh my god.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 536936, member: 11227"] The thing is, trying to analyse J's tantrum in such a situation is a bilt like trying to analyse the whims of a mad king.... it doesn't bear much fruit. It's not just the food. I don't even know that it was mainly the food. J is stressed, exhausted, maybe some even word I don't even have vocab for, after school, holding it together all day with a teacher who down'st, it seems, make ANY special allowances for him and is on his back punitively much of the time. I'm sure he is a bit hungry, but this is the only time he will go crazy like that over food. Generally he eats very little, just enough for his needs. I think it was even just the way I presented the snack I DID have - cheese and water - because I said something like "I'm afraid it's only cheese and water", which immediately set him off whining and crying. I should have said, "Hey, J! Look!" - but then even that might have set him off because really it wasn't just the food. On the other hand, eating the food did change his mood around - but I think that was also because I was doing what he wanted, going to the boulangerie he suggested. You see what I mean about the mad king... I think what it comes down to is that he is in a school that is not really right for him, apart from the small numbers. I know this will seem odd, probably, but I so wish we could avoid school, or school didn't exist, or something... yes, yes, hippie-ville.... but it seems like such a grand, pressurised waste of time to me FOR THIRTEEN YEARS!! Oh my god. [/QUOTE]
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