Help - extremely clingy DS aged 14 months!

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Hi,

Title says it all, DS has become really clingy in the last few days. He will usually sit and play by himself whilst I tidy up / wash up etc but now screams if I leave the room and will follow me, still crying. He screams when put in his cot for naps too, even when he is blatently tired (used to put himself to sleep without a murmour).

It's driving us crazy - do children just have a weird clingy stage at this age? Any suggestions would be brill thanks.

yes - classic separation anxiety. Peaks shortly after they are one and can last for a shrt time or quite a while. No advice but to ride it out - this is the time to prove they can trust you. Hold them when they need holding, reassure when they need reassuring. They are just realising they are a separate entity and that's scary. Play games like Peek-a-Boo where you go out of sight for a very short time but demonstrate that you always come back. It's very tiring but it stops as suddenly as it starts.

Oh yes, we're in it now!!!! Today has been better since my kind but everso definitely very firm approach to 'I am going to do this and then I will give you a cuddle..' and then pick something very short to do (like get mug from cupboard) - (she's been everso unmanageably clingy for weeks!) and so far today with that appraoch I have managed to empty the dishwasher and reload it and also leave the room 3 times to go for a wee / empty tumble dryer etc and all without a single moan! I feel like a new woman!!

Thank you! Had a big disaster tonight with this clingyness - I popped him in the bath, stepped outside the bathroom door to put his clothes in the basket and he threw himself out of the bath screaming to get to me...

Hoping this stage is ^very short.