School or Daycare Avoidance/Refusal Part Two

Hello, Deborah - This is a good post that brings back a lot of memories, both of my own childhood and that of my sons. I developed lots of migraines when I moved to a different school situation - this was in a private school for the wealthy, and we weren't that at all. Even though I always did well academically and had many friends, there were days when I couldn't face the class or the teacher, a headache hit, I stayed home. Those were definitely early days of depression and anxiety, though, as was your experience, no one thought about mental health problems in kids. One of my sons acted out a lot at a certain period. Unfortunately, I was dealing then with unacknowledged emotional and mental problems of my own and couldn't imagine what to do about his issues. We looked to the school environment or we thought it was a hard phase he was going through, but there was an inner hurt we didn't pay enough attention to. And there were certainly later consequences for him.

Thank you - it's helpful to read about this and live again through some of the problems we can learn from, if only in retrospect.