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"But you love school when you're there!"

Name: "But you love school when you're there!"
Uploaded: 2024-09-20T16:07:03+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Camilla McGill
Description: In this short spoken segment, the presenter narrates a common morning confrontation where a child refuses to go to school and the parent feels powerless…

20 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this short spoken segment, the presenter narrates a common morning confrontation where a child refuses to go to school and the parent feels powerless. The speaker highlights how the daily struggle of getting children to school or daycare creates significant stress for parents, often leaving them exhausted before work. The core warning is that if this conflict is not handled thoughtfully, it can erode the parent‑child relationship and may even lead parents to let children skip school to avoid the battle, reinforcing a harmful cycle.

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I'm not going to school today. You can't make me. Oh yes, you are. You know it's school today and you love it when you're there. What? School? Don't make me go. I very much doubt that there's a parent out there that hasn't encountered this conversation, made worse by the fact that we need our kids to go to school or nursery or daycare so that we can get to work. In fact, there are days when getting kids out of the door are so stressful that we arrive at work feeling totally drained, having dropped a child off screaming, don't leave me. The thing is, if we don't address this problem carefully, it can damage our relationship with our child, and we might even find that we let our child skip school just to avoid the morning battle.