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You and the kindy teachers need to come up with a plan. A plan that is consistent for both of you. The best system is a reward idea. For you, that would mean purchasing a cheap calender. Get a bunch of those little silver or gold stars. Now every time your son does something good, behaviour that is noticably good, put a star on the calender. When he achieves, say, 10 stars, buy him a little present. Explain this reward system carefully to him. You would be surprised how this can work, when he sees a reward at the end of it. If he wants the reward quickly, he will need to behave & do good things more often. Get the kindy teachers to come up with something similar. The system works. Good Luck.

My son is 5 and in Kindergarten. He is my middle child. My first son breezed through Kindergarten with hardly any behavior problems but my middle son is having more problems with sitting still and listening. In the cafeteria he fools around. This past week he chewed with his mouth open and when the cafeteria workers told him to stop he wouldn't and stuck his tongue out at them. He also said No to one of the other Kindergarten teachers when she asked him to do something. He's not ever mean or anything like that and he's also bright and can do his work and read, etc but he has a hard time just sitting still. The weird thing to me is that it's gotten worse in the second half of the school year. I have tried different punishments but none work. So now we're supposed to have counslers evaluate him or something since he's gotten in trouble more this year. I guess we'll see what happens. He has been good the past two days so I have hope. Anyway, I guess the reason I wrote that is because you're not alone. I'm not sure what you could do... You could see if you could have a meeting with the princal and teacher, maybe the school counsler and toss around ideas with them.

He's around the age to begin having problems with his adenoids and it's quite possible...he cannot hear. So, he plays up. You need to see your GP and arrange for him to have a hearing test maybe. Other than that...do you have a community health centre you can take him to or to just ring for some info?