Aargh, I'm starting a thread! Only been back on 2 days and already I'm starting a thread! What if they all ignore me? No no, paranoid bad, deep breath.
This has been worrying me for ages. ds is being brought up differently to dd. I was a sahm with dd. But with ds, well he was shafted to France when he was 6 months old for 2 years and spent some time in the French creché, around 3 days a week. He hated it.
He's now 3.5 and had been going to the local nursery 4 days a week, reluctantly, but he was well cared for. I start a new job in Sept and his old nursery don't do term time only care. So I have to move him. Trouble is, I have him signed up for a nursery attached to a school, but they don't take him until the 10th and on some days he'll have to be picked up by a different nursery until I finish work. So he'll eventually be at the school nursery 5 full school days a week, 4 of those days he'll also be in the community nursery for half an hour until I finish.
But my problem is that I am currently trying to get him used to the community nursery, but he screams and cries when we pull up in the car park. He is heartbroken when I drop him off and shows no signs of settling. Even if he does settle, he'll have to get used to the school nursery too. It's all too much for him isn't it? He's so young still and I just feel that he's had too much change and not enough stability.
I really am damaging him aren't I? How can a child be that heartbroken, that hysterical, and not be damaged by that? He flings himself against the door of the nursery when I leave and I can hear him screaming my name.