What to Do When Your Child Hates School: How to See Your Child off to School with a Smile Again - Softcover

It is upsetting for any parent when you find out your child is unhappy at school, whether it is because of bullying, struggling to keep up, or hates their teachers. As a parent you will want to do all that you can to solve this issue and help make their life easier. What to Do When Your Child Hates School is aimed at exactly these parents and includes expert advice on how to approach these sensitive issues. This practical guide covers all options from mainstream education, independent schools, specialist schools, home education and tutors through to resolving problems within the school or changing schools altogether as well as providing specific chapters on these issues for both pre and post-16 education.

It can be utterly agonising to send your child to school when you know they hate it. Many parents are in tears day after day as a result. And watching all those other parents dropping off happy smiling children makes it feel all the more lonely.

Thousands of parents go through the same thing every day. Maybe your child is being bullied, or maybe they're struggling to keep up. Perhaps they're bored, or maybe they have social or learning difficulties. Whatever the reason, it makes everyone's life hell.

That's why Antonia Chitty has put together this guide to coping. You'll have tried what you can already, but here are lots more ideas too, whatever kind of solution you want:

• How to talk to the school to get the problems resolved
• How to change schools wthin the state system
• Alternative schools, from Montessori and Steiner to boarding school
• Home education
• Flexischooling and home tutoring

There is an answer, and this book will help you find it. It may take a little while, but it's only a matter of time before your child will be happy to get up in the mornings, and may eve head off to school with a smile.