Update

Sorry I haven't written for a while! We've been really busy over christmas and the new year but everything has settled down again now. Connor is back to school. He still cries every morning when I drop him off but I have been to speak to his teacher this afternoon and she says that as soon as I have left he settles down and is fine. Whenever I ask him why he cries he says that he would just rather be at home with me then at school. He always says that nothing bad is happening at school, none of the other children are bothering him and his teacher says that he is doing really well with his class work, he's having no problems keeping up or anything. So I don't know what else to do really, other then just continue to take him to the class room door, kiss him goodbye and walk away from him. It's very hard leaving him crying all the time but I think that his teacher is very good with him. I've never had a direct conversation with her about Connor being a HSC because I don't feel that I know enough about it myself yet to talk about it confidently, but she seems to understand a lot of how he needs to be treated instinctively. There was a good example today. The children were painting in class and Connor saw some of the other kids put their hands in the paint and make handprints so he did it too but the teacher was not impressed because they made quite a mess! She told them that they shouldn't have been doing it and when Connor told me about it I thought 'oh no, he must've gotten really upset'. I asked him what happened next. He said that he said sorry straight away and then the teacher told him he was a good boy for saying sorry and left it at that. This is just what needs, because he is so sensitive he can tell straight away if he has done something that has made some one unhappy, and he doesn't like it. Just realising that he has done something 'wrong' is enough to check him and make him not want to do it again a lot of the time (not so much at home with me when he's tantruming, but then he has to let it out somewhere, and far better at home then at school!) and getting a telling off would have really upset him. She's obviously recognised this and instead has praised him for being brave enough to say sorry straight away, which would have taken some effort for him. It's great to now that he has a teacher like this, especially for his first year at school.