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By Cathy-Dee

One of my first questions would be how does he get to school?

Does he come on a bus or walk by himself? If so perhaps there are other students threatening him and he doesn't know how to deal with it or tell his mom about
it.
If that's not the problem. Next question.
Is he an only child? Does he have younger siblings at home?
I find that only children or children with younger siblings seem to have a more difficult time leaving home in the mornings.
Is he tired? Perhaps an earlier bedtime would also help. Children who are tired in the mornings can be much more fussy as well.

Grade 1 is

a transition year. Most children realize quickly that they are in school for longer periods of time and they would much rather be home with mom.

One of the keys is not to give in to him.

Other things that may help....

- planning something special for afterschool once or twice a week that only can happen after-school. So he has reason to look forward to coming to school.

- could he have a special job at school one or two days. We had one student in grade 2 this year who was going through that transition - only on the days his little brother wasn't in kindergarten. So on his next day without his brother also at school we made him assistant Principal for the morning. He got to help the Principal all morning, walked with the Principal to the classrooms, etc.,

He will grow out of this. My worse case was a little girl and we actually had to ban the mom from even coming into the school as the girl made a fuss until mom was out of sight. Then she was perfectly fine. This went on for about 2 1/2 weeks and then all of a sudden she was fine.