Hello, tied2tots, and welcome! Glad you found us--I'm sure there are some people here who will be able to help you out.

I can't help you much with your school questions, because we've never been in school (I have three boys, 8, almost 6 and almost 4, all homeschooling). I'm sorry your little guy is unhappy--I'm sure it's really hard on both of you. He does indeed sound bored to this complete stranger, but I'm not sure how you deal with that with the school (I'm sure someone with experience in this area will chime in here). My only real suggestion--and I'm sure it's something you're doing already--is to make sure he feels really loved and accepted just the way he is at home, since it's no fun to spend the whole school day feeling like you're a bad kid and always in trouble. Everybody needs that safe harbour at home, you know what I mean?

My kids have imaginary enemies too, which freaked me out a little at first, I must admit. But theirs are not so much "trying to make trouble for [them]" as they are characters in an ongoing good guys-bad guys saga, in which none of the three of them wanted to play the bad guy! (That this was the purpose of their imaginary enemies was not clear to me at first.) Does he ever triumph over Invisible, or is he always Invisible's victim? If he gets to win at least sometimes, I'd say not to worry, but if Invisible always wins and he is its constant hapless victim, then I'd say you need to worry a bit about addressing his feelings of powerlessness (in my very amateurish, completely unqualified opinion--I'm a cultural historian/part-time musician, so this is all mom-gut speaking, not expertise!).

Welcome again--

peace
minnie