DD is 4.9, DS is 3. DD is now in Reception full-time and DS goes to preschool 3 mornings a week. Dropping them off is a drama every single day. DD clings to me and refuses to go sit on the carpet with the rest of the class until the teacher or TA takes her from me. DS cries and clings when I drop him off. I leave feeling like the worst parent in the world.
This doesn't happen when our nanny drops them off one or two mornings a week. It's like a magic mummy factor or something.
A few weeks ago I asked DD how we could make it easier for her and she suggested we have a giant double hug and giant double kiss and then she would go to the carpet ... and that worked for a few days, but now we're back to the clinging and refusing to let me go.
I try to be patient but I do sometimes end up getting impatient or cross or resorting to threats like "I won't be able to drop you off any more if you keep doing this" not helpful I know and only adds to my sense of failure and frustration.
Both kids (but especially DD) are, like me, introverts and highly sensitive (HSCs), so I know that the change in environment and the social aspects of school can be hard for them. DD wouldn't even play more than ten feet away from me until about a year ago, and has only started making friends since starting primary school (yay! I recognise that that's a huge step!). Both of them want me with them all the time and although I know the day will eventually come when I'm the last person they want to hang out with, and I'll miss these early days right now, it's exhausting, demoralising and just so hard every day.
I know too that I shouldn't care what other parents think, but I feel like I get a lot of looks from other parents who are wondering what's wrong with my kid that she does this every day.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Another demoralising school drop off
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eversomuch · 30/11/2015 10:37
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