Just interested to know how you would have handled this?
My toddler is starting nursery. They're on the spectrum and we've had to really stagger their settling in sessions over a few weeks starting with just an hour a day.
The nursery is attached to a community centre and I've been asked to wait there during the sessions in case I am needed.
So for the past 3 days I've come with my other child (a baby), and fed them both lunch, then dropped off the toddler next door at the nursery. The community centre has been used only by a teenage boy and who I assume is his tutor every day I've come in. They're sat down by the time we arrive.
My toddler is prone to short but intense meltdowns, and it's a often struggle to feed them. Today, they were refusing to eat and were crying and screaming for no more than 5 minutes. I was trying to console them during this time. A lady in her early 50s approached me from the reception area during the screaming and I stupidly assumed she wanted to try and calm my child. Instead she said to me, word for word: "Would it be possible for her to calm down please ". A minute or two after she approached me, my child was okay and I proceeded to feed them. They did not meltdown again, and after a further 10 minutes, I dropped them off next door at the nursery. My other child was napping the rest of the time.
I was so taken aback, I didn't really know how to respond. I said something like "I wish it was possible" then asked her if she wanted us to leave. Will take my child in with their lanyard next time, but wondered how people managed such incidents with their SEND children.
Many thanks