If your child has nothing to say when she comes home from the first day of school, if she's so tired she wants to lie down, of all things, it's not because they ran her ragged in phys ed. She's emotionally exhausted.
Any child starting a new year typically sets off on the first morning feeling grown up.
She's in a new grade and excited to see friends. She's also likely worried about any number of things, from whom she'll sit next to, to how strict the teacher will be. But the honeymoon has to end sometime, typically by the fifth day. Let it go,'' he says. Before we can do anything, however, we need to know that something's wrong.