Hi @Janine-RO Janie-RO thanks. Yep thats all been done recently, clean bill of health from that perspective. Yeah still celebrating the small wins. Monday right off but not too disappointed as he was up all night with a bit of a reaction to some face cream. Today was a full day at school, and on time, so Ill take that! Here's to what tomorrow brings ;)
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I actually should clarify though its not so much as school refusal as him sitting in the lounge and refusing to go out the door. Its actually waking him up and getting him out of bed. Once he is up he goes. ie just right no as of 12:30 he is finally getting ready for school. Ill take the small wins and if its 3 lessons he gets to its better than none
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Thanks Birdwings for the advice. Still very up and down. Got him to school for a full day earlier this week and the last two lessons yesterday. Today is another battle and will not get out of bed so looks like no attendance again today. School counsellor had a chat with him on the day he attended and offered some support to him and I caught up with the school counsellor that morning highlighting the discussion. Attempted to get him to a separate counselling session to no avail as that was refused as well. I'm stuck as its all day trying to get him out of bed which is impacting everything else :( I'm trying to avoid the punishment and privilege removal as I suspect that will make things much worse. Just don't know how long this can persevere as its now 3 weeks with 1.25 days in attendance. Not withstanding I'm almost at breaking point.
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HI we are really struggling with our 14 year old son with school refusal (its now been over 2 weeks solid) in addition to the 1 or 2 days per week it has been all term. We are at a loss as to what to do. He simply refuses to get out of be to go and becomes very angry the more we push. Any attempts to punish him lead to threats and actual actions of making the situation worse, and is in fact the case. We tried to get him to see a counsellor all to no avail as he refused to leave the house for that. His whole attitude is off and we know he is a great kid he is not the same. We are well and truly stuck here :(
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