My boy started nursery two months ago and hates it just as much as he did at the beginning. He spends a lot of the day ‘very emotional’ as the staff put it (crying sh*t loads I think is what I’d call it). Sometimes he’s ok at drop off, other times awful. When I pick him up he’s often just been crying. He sleeps there well thankfully but doesn’t eat the food aside from snacks (although tbf he’s also incredibly picky at home so that’s consistent).
He’s generally always been quite high needs - very demanding and prone to crying and now, tantrums. He’s completely different to my older child who I didn’t realise was so easy until I had my son. I don’t know whether to ride it out and assume at some point he’ll accept his fate or if I should call it quits and find a child minder who has a smaller less frenetic setting (the staff say he finds the going in and out and the door all quite upsetting as I think he’s just hopes were there to pick him up).
He goes three days a week. He takes his fave teddy and carries that around. He has bonded with one staff member in particular and makes a beeline for her. The staff in general don’t seem that fazed by his behaviour but I hate the idea of him just being so sad or cross so much. My other child settled within a month or so and was never so emotional about it all.
I do wonder though if a child minder would result in the same sort of thing though and he’d just hate it being there too. He’s quite a grumpy thing and can be very cry-y at home too. He is so sweet when not furious. He’s been tricky since day one this little darling - I just want one thing with him to be easy…. It weighs heavily on me. Any thoughts?