Getting my granddaughter to school has become a complete nightmare

DEAR DEIDRE: EVER since my granddaughter started precocious school, getting her to schoolhouse successful the mornings has go a implicit nightmare. 

Whether it’s a headache, a sore throat, a comic stomach, oregon a toothache, she ever finds an excuse to debar going in. 

She’s 11, and I’m her 63-year-old grandmother. 

I can’t recognize what’s changed. She utilized to emotion going to schoolhouse and seeing her friends.

Since she was young, she’s loved learning and has ever done good successful class, truthful her caller alteration successful behaviour makes nary sense.

Every time getting her retired of furniture is similar pulling teeth, and I tin archer it’s truly starting to get my girl down. 

They’ve some lived with maine since she divorced her husband, truthful I effort my champion to help, but there’s lone truthful overmuch I tin do.

She tries her hardest to enactment her ft down, but my granddaughter ever kicks up a fuss and starts a screaming match. 

On galore occasions my girl has had to springiness up and permission her location to unreserved disconnected to work.

I’ve tried my champion to speech to her, but she ever insists that she conscionable doesn’t consciousness precise good and there’s thing much to it. 

How bash I get to the bottommost of this?

DEIDRE SAYS: Children whitethorn beryllium reluctant to spell to schoolhouse for a multitude of reasons.

From relationship fallouts, bullying, intelligence wellness problems, struggles with schoolwork, and hard relationships with teachers to worries astir fitting in. 

While you can’t unit her to archer you what’s wrong, you tin marque definite she knows you’ll beryllium determination for her erstwhile and if she’s acceptable to.

In the meantime, suggest that your girl talk to your granddaughter's schoolhouse to spot if they tin assistance get to the bottommost of this and assistance enactment her.

You tin besides interaction The Mix (themix.org.uk), who assistance young radical nether 25 to get indispensable support.

If you request further support, you tin get this done familylives.org.uk (0808 800 2222).