Glad to see everyone is doing better. Wednesday at CAMHS was emotional having to talk about all the things that has affected grandson. So many family deaths and illnesses in his short life so far and there's no doubt Covid made it worse as he was terrified of even more people dying. Anyway, onwards and upwards! Bit by bit he's getting back to normal (whatever normal is). Today he was very proud. He's been speeding through maths and getting everything correct. He did tell his teacher it's too easy as he did this stuff with me about a year ago. His teacher gave him a test, he completed it in no time at all, got everything correct, so he's been promoted to the top maths group. He said in front of his teacher " My Nana's teaching has made a big difference". He told me later that even in the top group it's still quite easy because it's things we did a while ago. Never mind he says, we'll just go on revising and stay ahead of the group. He doesn't say too much about knowing it as he admits it's better not to sound like a know it all.
Just when one grandson seems to be getting there, the other has gone off the rails. He's utterly miserable and dealing with it all the wrong way. There's a child in his class that weirdly seems to hold sway over the other classmates. He tells them to do things and they do it! I say weirdly since in my time this child would have been an obvious target for bullies, not the bully. He's persuading the others not to play with Grandson and not to interact with him in class. So grandson is getting isolated , frustrated and miserable. This child is also hitting him but he's crafty and makes sure no one sees. Grandson retaliates but he gets caught then he's the one to blame. We've been impressing on him not to retaliate but sometimes it just gets too much for him. I'm really at a loss but it explains the bad behaviour and cheek he's been dishing out. It's a fine line between understanding why he's behaving like this and setting limits though. No wonder I've been a bit down.