What To Do With My DS!

[KBCsMommy]

My ds is 4 yo. He is my youngest child of 3, and my oldest dc child. All my dc kids are under 2. I am down 2 dc kids and I would love to put him in preschool but I can't afford it.

My problem is that he refuses to learn abc's, 123's, songs basically anything school related! He will either pretend like he's sleeping, or get up and walk away, go to the bathroom and hang out, throw a tantrum etc. anytime I turn on kids music or get out any projects.

He is going to be entering kindy in another year and Im getting nervous because I can't figure out how to teach the kid anything. Our school district is now doing transitional kindergarten, where the kids are tested before kindy, if they don't pass they get sent to a transitional kindy then sent to regular kindy when they are caught up. The problem is if the kids don't catch up he will be held back a year and sent to regular kindy instead of first grade.

The only thing he does like to do is paint and he likes chalk.
He hates crayons, markers and doesn't like to draw!!!

Any ideas would be wonderful!! Im baffled what to do with this kid!!!

[familyschoolcare]

His going from T-K to "regualar K is not the end of the world not sure if you are in the same area as me. Here T-K is just a way to help the school s and parts adjust to the Kindergarden date changing to you must be 5 on or before Sept 1st to go into kindergarden. So depending on exactly where his birthday falls then he may still be with children that share a bith dates even if he goes form T-K to Kindy.

Maybe he is not ready to learn yet.

Does the school district have a pre-school program

Could you hire a colledge student to com in ans teach him some basic pre-school stuff that could cost less that a pre-school and might work better than you after all children behave diffenetly for others than for thier own mommy.

[cheerfuldom]

Back off for a bit, the last thing you want is for him to have bad associations with school by pushing him to learn things when he really doesnt want to. A lot of school is more about the ability to learn, than the actual knowledge. Can he follow instructions? Wait his turn? Care for his personal belongs and pottying needs? that type of stuff.

If he really doesnt want to do school stuff for now, just leave him be and wait for the kinder evaluation.

or find ways to use what he does like as learning tools.

sounds like he really is needing something new so he may do really well in school. he is just burnt out of the home routine but everything will be new and exciting when he gets to school. a lot of kids are like that.

[Country Kids]

I had a dcb like that. He hated coloring and would just scribble to get it over with and couldn't handle how long it took the girls to color and make everything pretty.

To this day he still doesn't color and he's going into 4th grade. Drives his teachers mad and he still refuses to even if its part of the assignment.

Wonder what he will do when he has to color maps for social studies?

Nothing intelligently wrong-he just hates to color!!!