This week has been hard.
The Boys have hit a point this week where they are less
motivated than normal to do their school work. I could possibly understand if
it was something a little tedious and boring but it isn’t.
The topics this term have started off brilliantly and the boys
were really excited and engaged about them last week.
However, this week it has been a fight to get them to sit
still or even hold a pencil.
Excluding the difficulties in home school the boys have also
been clashing with each other.
Usually they are thick as thieves and are a troublesome twosome
side by side; the ultimate tag team, brothers and best friends against the
world. Instead they had literally been tearing chunks out of each other.
They haven’t been able to even sit next to each other before
I hear the high pitched whining voice come out of their mouths!
Although the boys are always good for me when it comes to a bedtime
routine and are tucked in bed by 7 with no fuss. This week however I have seen sheer tiredness hit
them by 6pm.
The difficulty then to keep them awake just that little bit
longer has also been a real battle, knowing full well that if I let them go to
bed earlier they would be up and awake at 5am, if not earlier. They just seem
truly exhausted!
The only conclusion I can think of is that they are in a post-Christmas
and back to school slump.
Realistically this isn’t surprising, are we, as adults, not
a little depressed for the same reasons?
We are only a few days away from Blue Monday where
apparently the world feels slightly more depressed than at other times of the
year.
We have spent over a month preparing for Christmas, shopping,
facing the maddening crowds and then the panic to make sure that our family
time is perfect.
We have had time off work and broke our normal routine with
family enjoyment, late nights and over indulging in food and drink. Just over a
week later and we are back to work, back to early mornings, school runs, making
lunches and the true concept of adult and parent life continues. Blue Monday
seems to then be the hit of all of this.
We has a week to forcefully wake ourselves up and get our children
ready and organised. We dragged ourselves back into a routine that I know a lot
of people were dreading; especially when there were hundreds of Facebook status’
and Tweets saying exactly that.
A week on and we are just about used to a routine again. The
weather is still dreadful and we still have dark morning and coming come in the
dark despite it being around 5pm. Who wouldn’t feel slightly depressed, grumpy
and tired?
So why should it be any different for our children?
I am hoping therefore that this is the reason for it and
they are just over-tired, stressed and grumpy that the idea of sitting watching
T.V and snacking on delicious goodies are now over.
What do you think?
Have you noticed a change in your child’s behaviour this
week? Is it just the back to school depression?
3 comments:
The last couple of weeks has been hard....Getting back into a routine has been difficult and very tiring...I don't think the weather has helped at all. So grey and depressing. I will be glad when the summer is hear. x
I think January is always a hard month - it's a bit dreary after all the excitement of Christmas and with gloomy days and dark mornings and evenings, I think it's no wonder that a lot of us (children included) are a bit grumpy. Hope this week will be a better one.
I think children can feel it as well as adults. January is always a challenging month after the decadence of December and getting back into any routine is hard. But on the positive side we are already half way through the month!
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