Regress

Kakak & Abang @ AGORA

It's almost the end of term 2 at both Aliyah's and Uwais' school. And while Aliyah has finally embraced school life and improved tremendously at her social skills, Uwais has somewhat regressed. He, who once jumped off his bed to go to kinder in Term 1, has now voiced all sorts of excuses for not going. Sometimes he'd say "Abang nak tidur 100 malam dulu baru nak pi school" or the likes of "Kalau snow baru abang nak pi school" :-P

I must admit, I have a soft spot for him, so when he's stressing out not wanting to go to kinder, it somewhat triple my stress - more so than my PhD stress level! I have talked to the kinder teacher, Amy, and will have a mid year term meeting next Friday with her. It baffled me why he's doing this. From Amy's regular report, I know that while in Term 1, he'd just enjoyed the kinder by himself - not wanting to engage with others, Term 2 has been different for him. He has started to play with others, instead of playing only with the toys on his own, he's talking more in English and relates with all his kinder friends. In Amy's words - there's a lot of improvement!

But lately, he'd refused to go. I guess, being a free-spirit that he is, the 'regimented' schedule of kinder has taken a toll on him. He felt confined, I think by the schedule. Now I will have to figure out how to go about Term 3. It's either to pull him out totally of the kinder and send him to daycare @ Latrobe Uni's Child Care or really cutting down on his hours @ days at kinder. Both has its pros and cons. And, I don't even know which one is less stressful, either for me or for him :-( Sigh....

Confined?! :-D