DD is 3.8 and started preschool today. She is a confident, independent little girl who was very excited about going.
She went in very happily, didn't want me to stay to settle her, they said she had a lovely day. She played and drew and made a snake and helped the teachers.
When I arrived to collect her she was playing happily but the second she saw me her face crumpled and she threw herself at me sobbing. She doesn't cry at all really and is a happy, sunny girl. They promised she was just fine the whole time.
100 yards from preschool on the walk home she was all smiles, telling me about how it was the best day ever and she loved it and wanted to go back tomorrow.
So why the sobbing? She's very erudite and says she just felt sad all of a sudden and that she missed me.
I'm a bit frightened she wasn't pleased to see me. Or that she didn't really enjoy it.
I'm being an idiot I suspect.
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DD started preschool today and was absolutely fine but cried when I collected her. Why?
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ShowOfHands · 05/01/2011 16:22
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