My ds has always been a bit clingy but at the moment its got ridiculous. He won't be left playing on the floor alone most of the time. I'll sit with him and he'll come and literally sit on my legs and hang on like a koala. If I move to go to the loo, he follows me arms in the air, muzzy in one hand screaming his head off tears pouring down his cheeks.
I work 2 days a week and he goes to nursery and when I leave him there he might cry for a few minutes or even have stopped before I leave the room and I'm told he rarely cries there and is generally one of the ones laughing (apparently). I am at home with him the other three days and we do the usual things, shopping, going to the park, swimming sometimes, meeting with friends and then time at home to do (boring) chores like washing/cleaning and cooking.
I try to "involve" him when doing things at home but I am finding the whingey clinging more and more wearing. People tell me its a phase and it'll pass like everything else but it's really really getting me down now. I've suffered from anxiety and depression before and I worry that this will push me over. I've also had a virus that I can't shake for a while which isn't helping....
Anyone got any similar stories/ ways of getting through this. This afternoon I was so down I wandered around the vicinity for an hour and a half with him in the buggy so I could clear my head.....
To those of you with several whingeing children my situation might sound like a breeze so sorry if it might seem trivial. He is otherwise an adorable child.......