Our 3 year old daughter (turned 3 in September) has just started one full day a week at nursery. She loved her trials which were a couple of hours but now she has to go properly she seems to hate it. We can't mention it beforehand because otherwise she bursts into tears and says she doesn't want to go and wants to stay at home. Once she is there she has to go to an adult for a cuddle as she cries or the other week she went with the adult but her lower lip was wobbling and I knew she would cry. I have turned up two weeks on the Trot and I can hear her cry as soon as I go upstairs and then she runs up to me for a cuddle. She has been ok and Nursery said she was fine but last week she had to stay with the same member of the staff and apparently was very tearful and wanted to hold hands and have cuddles the whole time. Nursery have been brilliant and said maybe she doesn't like the room she is in and now she is 3 she can move into the much bigger pre school room (she was meant to start in there but as she wasn't quite 3 we got told she would have to go upstairs for a few weeks) the manager said sometimes children just don't like the upstairs room and prefer the bigger space and stimulation. They said she is bright so would be good to go into pre school as she understands what is being said to her and is chatty. They said she is a really kind little girl towards her peers but just seems very clingy and tearful when there (she can be shy when we are out and about).
I have thought about swapping her to two half days so she is there more often than once a week as worried come January when her funding begins (which will then be 3 days a week) she will hate it even more.
Has anyone else experienced this and any advice? Feeling so anxious and guilty about it x