Feeling awful and tearful after ds has refused to come home with me after nursery today.

[tiredandwornoutmum]

All the staff were looking at me is if I was the worst mother in the world.

Just recently he has been refusing to leave nursery (school this is, not childcare nursery) and come home. Says he doesn't want to come home and doesn't want Mummy. He has also done it once to the childminder who picks him up twice a week.

Dont know how to tackle this, I left him perfectly happy this morning so don't know why he would NOT want to come with me.

The staff must think he has a terrible home life (which he doesn't btw) to not want to come home with me

My ds2 went through a phase of that at the childminders. I would whisper in his ear that there was a treat in the car or that the postman had been etc. It worked!

{{tired feels faint at the thought of ds still doing this at 7years old }}

I think I would just try some empathy with him. Try and understand how he's feeling and say something like "you must be feeling really angry with mum and you need some reassurance that i'm not going to abandon you". Or whatever you think it is that he's feeling. He'll feel a lot safer if he's understood.