Do your kids skip school alot?

I think I must do a pretty decent job of keeping the idea of "staying home" less desirable than going to school. My two will happily escape to school over what I would have them do if I thought they were up for it.

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Thanks everyone for the encouragement. My daughter is doind better tonight, so far! She's stayed in her room all evening, but she does have the door open and smiles and talks when I go by her room. However, I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow night when she's suppose to go to church with her older half-sister. Well see!

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r.h. in oklahoma

Raised a country boy, and will die a country boy.

My daughter liked school and wanted to be with her friends so I never had any issues with her wanting to stay home.

My son was in gifted programming and struggled with boredom and frustration all throughout high school. He was the typical introvert who took a mental health day when he needed it. He would usually spend those days wrapped up in some creative project like writing or building robots.

He went on to graduate with an engineering degree at the age of 22. Regular school was not a good fit for him and I regret not homeschooling him. He never asked for stuff, whined or tried to spend all day sleeping, he just had to release some stress/teen angst by closing in on himself.

I have experienced some truly awful teens who sleep all day and mouth off to their parents. Mine were not like that at all, thankfully.

No. School was their job. If you don't teach an unimpeachable work ethic starting in grade school then you are just teaching your child to fail. Life is not doing just what you want to do.

If a child is sick then they are sick and this is a different situation. If on the other hand they are just swinging the lead then it is important that they don't benefit from this. If they are too "sick" to go to school then they are too sick to play games or watch TV.

If the "sick" days are coming often and close together then the parent has to find out why the child has this strong aversion to going to school.

Unsupervised time is an excelent way to become a grand-pa. Ask me how I know? ( says the lady who had her first baby just before she turned 20 )

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Samantha,
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

One of the hardest parts of parenting is loving your kids enough to let them hate you.
Best of luck to you.

If your child is skipping school a lot then figure out why. Perhaps school is such a horrible experience they are trying to stay away from it. Think bullies. Perhaps it is boring and not challenging to them. My parents forced me to go to school. It was a horrible experience. I self-educated myself since school was filled with drudgery and bullies. I homeschool our kids and they love it. I'm so glad they have a wonderful experience learning.

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