subject: What To Do If A Child Hates School? [print this page] Mom my stomach is aching; I wont go to school today. This is the most common dialogue we often listen from school going children. Every day they give some or the other excuse to skip school. It slowly becomes a habit. We often scold them and force them to go to school, but do we try to find it out why they show this unwilling attitude to go to school? There may be a myriad of reasons why they avoid going to their schools. Some of those are discussed below.
Boredom is one of the biggest reasons that many children face in schools. May be they dont find the teaching style not interesting or they dont like the school curriculum.
Friends in the school life matters a lot. That is one of the key elements why children get attracted to schools but in many cases children may have problems with their peer groups. Many times, it has been found that children dont get friends whose brain waves match with theirs and this makes them avoid their schools because they feel uncomfortable in the school.
It has also been seen many times that children afraid of their teachers because the teachers happened to be highly strict which children of small age find difficult to cope up with.
The other reasons may be the pressure in the schools. The study pressure in schools has increased so much that children do not get time to play or even meet their friends. It is also very normal for children to not like studying for a longer period. Excessive pressure of homework also makes them dislike their school environment.
Children do not like anything which let them not enjoy what they want, and slowly they tend to avoid it. For very young children it is quite understandable if they dont like the concept of schools. A sudden change of environment from home to school makes them dislike their schools in the initial days. Moreover, human beings feel like spending their time in a place and with the people where they get their comfort zone. Moreover, it is quite natural that at such a young age nobody would like to study rather than playing with friends. At such a situation, parents should discuss the problem with teachers of the school and try to make the school atmosphere adjustable for the children. School authority also should emphasize on other activities also than only focusing on academics. With such steps, the problem of children of not going to schools gradually decreases.
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