Don't Panic If Your Kid Refuses To Go To School

What to do.

Oct 05, 2022

Don't Panic If Your Kid Refuses To Go To School   One day, Alexandra Frost's son literally ran away from the bus. He told her he didn't want to go to school and apparently he really, really meant it. She had to chase him down — and this is the kicker — while heavily pregnant. "Since then, we haven't had as dramatic of an exit, but have battled many bouts of school refusal, due to gripes with friends, the wrong kind of chocolate milk in the lunchroom, and a few more serious issues," she writes. And so she decided to investigate: What's up with school refusal, and what the heck are we supposed to do?  Hope nobody's day included a frantic sprint after a runaway kid, and if so, that you have better luck tomorrow.  Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor   READ MORE.

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PARENTING We Probably Need To Give Our Firstborns A Little More Credit   Today we've got a piece from the Scary Mommy archives, a lovely piece by Katie Bingham-Smith about her firstborn: "We navigated our way through so many firsts together, some good and some not so much. But there wasn't anyone else I would have wanted to learn alongside. Our oldest kids have a big job that they don't ask for, and may not even want, and there are times when I forget that truth." Check it out — bet it makes you want to give your oldest a hug.   READ MORE

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