Help with 5 Year Old - Bed time & school!

Becles

Sounds pretty normal to me!

My daughter is 4 and started the reception year in September. School really tires her out, yet she still tries to delay bed time. Just one of those things you have to be strict with and work through.

Her fave thing is questions and she'll say "Mam" then "ermmmm ermmmmm ermmmmmmm" while she thinks of a question, then come out with something random like "why do we have armpits?" :rotfl:

Sagz_2

Ummmm, Why do we have armpits?

aligerdie

Do you leave the light on upstairs when they go to bed?

I wonder if they're avoiding going up to bed because they're either frightened of the dark, or scared of being alone up there.

I used to be exactly the same when I was younger, I'd spin it out, then sit on the stairs until I heard someone coming as I was frightened of being upstairs on my own

esmy

I had tears daily from my two over homework when they were 5/6 - so we abandoned it as part of the daily routine, and would do it when they were ready and in the mood, usually not immediately after school. Sometimes we just didn't do it at all. However we read always , painted, made models, went for walks locally, on day trips etc. I wasn't prepared for them to get upset over it at that age. They apparently did 'nothing' all day in school too! Eldest now doing a degree and youngest A levels so I assume they did do something.....
Don't underestimate how tiring a day in school is for the younger children - I found they need some 'down time' after school and especially before bedtime.
Did your child's sleeping pattern change after the half term holiday? This always threw youngest DD for a while.

Becles

Sagz wrote: »

Ummmm, Why do we have armpits?

shut up and go to sleep!

supermonkey

thanks for all the replies. re-assuring!

bed is 7, story, & lights left on. sometimes we do end up talking its hard not to when they keep following you out of the room!
aim to do homework straight away as less tired.

mummyoftwomonkeys

my 4 year old had a school trip last week and when I asked what it was like he told me a man spoke to them who had no hair and I forgot to pack a spoon to go with his yoghurt and a teacher had to get one for him lol this is all I could get out of him so Ive no idea if his school trip was any good or not. I don't agree with homework that young my son gets it sometimes on a friday night to be in on tuesday and it normally involves drawing something and he hates it!

mrs_marty

My son started P1 this year and we get the same and when his eldest sister started school, the same as well.

They do so much in a day! As for homework my son is the king of playing games!!! His current game is making the teacher think he cant tell the difference between written numbers, but just like your child does it no problem at home.

In terms of homework we have nearly something every night, either reading, words or doing a line of letters.

My son loves testing the boundary of bedtime, but gets him no where, as we stick to the rules 6.30 upstairs with dvd etc for an hour or so then lights off.

Errata

I think "what did you do" is too big a question for smaller children, and Meeps has got it right. Give them a 'menu' to respond to and they don't have any difficulties in recalling what they did.

Oldernotwiser

meritaten wrote: »

homework? at five years old? !!!!!! - my generation didnt get homework until we were eleven! but then, the school didnt faff about teaching totally unnecessary topics - we tended to concentrate on learning the basics. and funnily enough - the literacy and numeracy rates were far higher then in the sixties!

Most people of our generation read at home anyway so there was no reason to call it homework and make it compulsory.