Inner World Series

Again today, Jackson woke up and was supremely adamant about not wanting to go to school.  He also wanted his mommy.  He was not able to see her at all yesterday.  We don’t know if he doesn’t want to go because this is just a normal kid wanting to stay home, or if he realizes he is being picked on.

The normal routine is to wake up, go to the potty and then get dressed.  He was so worked up, that this wasn’t going to happen.  We skipped right to watching a little TV and having his yogurt.  After a few minutes, this calmed him down and I was able to take a shower and get ready for work.  He woke up early today so I wasn’t able to do this while he was still asleep.  When I went downstairs he was happy again and talking about what was happening in the “Backyardagains” video.  I was able to pause the show, with just a little protest and get him to come up stairs and potty and get dressed.  He couldn’t really decide what he wanted to wear, but made sure I knew he didn’t want to go to school.

We went back downstairs and he watched a little more while I got my lunch ready.  He fussed about it, but he did turn off the TV when asked and walked to the door to go get in the car.  I think he wanted to be sure I knew he wanted to stay home and see mommy, but knew he was going to have to go to school anyway.

In the car he talked about the mess on the floor (fruit snack wrappers from the little bags he has every morning) and I said I would have to clean it up.  He said he wanted to help.  He then went on to talk about cleaning mommy’s car as well.  (I know hers needs it as well.)  He went further,after trying to figure out what he was saying, to talk about cleaning his trains.  Mommy may find some odd requests when she picks him up and gets home, but hopefully it can be some fun play.

At school, I tried to give some basic run down of what we learned last night.  I’m still processing everything, but the first class was a lot of intro stuff instead of getting down to specifics to our exact needs.  Anyway, I was talking to the lead teacher about how we will have to try and engage Jackson more, but will have to follow his lead.  I got a little more details than that, but the response I got was not entirely encouraging.  She said to let her know what techniques we were using at home and they would try them there.  My frustration lay in the fact that I was trying to explain the there wasn’t a specific game or technique (it’s really more a philosophy to me) to use, you just had to tune into what Jackson was doing and tap into his focus.

She was saying all the right things, but she just didn’t seem to get it.  We’ll see how it goes.  We don’t think his current daycare will be a long term solution.