I had a meeting with the school principal Wednesday. I was SOOO NERVOUS! I literally stayed up the night before going over the situation in my head all night over and over. I felt like I was in trouble or something. Maybe I felt like they thought I was just a lazy mom. So up until the moment I checked in I finally thought Oh great this must be how Nick feels. I really thought I was going to throw up.

Anyways after talking for 45 minutes about this situation I finally came to the conclusion he does have separation anxiety (we all knew that) and he has to have everything structured and perfect in his day. I am a very scheduled person and I think that has rubbed off onto him. He is given work at school and as he does the work he will erase it until he has his letters looking "perfect", the teacher has even mentioned he is a little "OCD" and we all laughed at it. But it is true. Once the other kids move on to the next task he is still perfecting his. So he gets frustrated and worried he will get in trouble. I had a talk with him and explained that it is ok to have everything nice and neat and if he doesn't finish he needs to complete it and start on the new paper. Seems simple...is it to a 5yr old? He also dislikes chaos and confrontation (again like mommy).
So we are working on this literally one day at a time! I have a couple books I checked out to help him and in the mean time we are going to get him into a counselor to see if we can rid him from this anxiety.

He started back Thursday and after my little talk with him he woke up that morning tear free! YAY! That is a start. He went to school came home and the first thing out of his mouth was "I wish I never had to go to school again". Huuuhhhhhhhh what do I say to that?