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Your child hates school? Learn the causes and solutions!

In conjunction with coming back to school, many children are starting their new school year with a lot of enthusiasm to meet their school friends again and do their favorite activities, play, and engage in different school activities. But this is not the case for all children. Some children worry about going back to school and the beginning of the school year becomes a source of great concern for them.. What is the reasons and what are the best solutions? Here are the details…

Many children tend to hate school, especially in the early years of school, and this is due to many reasons, the most important of which are:

  • Loneliness

Friends are the most important motivating factor in a child’s admiration for school and vice versa. If your son spends his school hours alone at all times, eats alone and plays alone, feeling that everyone has a group of friends except for him, this will develop his sense of resentment to school, boredom and reduce his self-confidence.

  • Being bullied

Despite the ongoing campaigns to prevent bullying, it is still a major problem for many children that causes them to hate going to school and to feel constant anxiety and, especially if the bullying is physical or verbal.

  • Teachers’ attitude

Teachers has an essential role in the lives of children, especially in the early years of school. Either their influence is positive or negative to the extent that the child hates the subject, his grades deteriorate, and he hates the whole school! Especially if the teacher has a harsh attitude, tough words and constant criticism of the student, and vice versa, the teacher can, with smart teaching methods, attention and sympathy with students, increase the student’s love for the subject he is teaching and make the learning environment interactive and healthy so that students achieve the required achievements.

  • Difficulty learning and understanding the material

Children’s abilities to understand and comprehend are not the same, it is normal for them to face some difficulties in learning, especially in the early school stages, and these difficulties may cause the child to worry and feel a sense of failure and stress before going to school.

  • Lack of a sense of belonging

Some children are different, their interests and temperament differ. They may not be in line with normal or traditional methods of education or normal activities, which makes them feel somewhat excluded and increases their sense of loneliness.

  • Shyness and introverted

If your son is basically shy, which makes him tend to isolate and introverted, school may not become his favorite place, as he increases fear and tension in class and refrains from appearing or answering questions or even asking about something he does not understand, thus increasing his refusal to go to school and be there.

Signs that shows your child hates school:

Some physical and psychological signs of a child’s dislike of school may appear, even if the child does not express his feelings of discomfort or hatred towards school. These signs include:

  • Diarrhea
  • Stomach pain
  • Nausea
  • Outbursts of anger
  • Anxiety

How to deal with this problem?

  • Talk to your child every day, ask him about his day at school, and pay attention to details to discover the problem that causes him to hate school.
  • Help him/her make friends by scheduling play day and study with a classmate who lives close to where you live
  • Communicate with the school and the teaching staff, if the child suffers from bullying, difficulty in learning, or shyness.

• Organize the time, to add a little playtime, fun and rest for your son to get excited about coming back from school to do the fun activities he loves.