Distraught at moving rooms

[dribbleface]

My Ds took a long time to settle at nursery, not helped by being off frequently with illness. He settled well in the end and although still grumbled in the morning, was off playing before the door even shut. He had a major wobble when a new staff member started and it took a few weeks to settle down.

He's now 2 and moved rooms, and he is heartbroken. He does not do change at all. Even on holiday last week he asked to go home to his cot at night. To make it worse I work at his nursery (never go into to him in the day though) and I can hear him crying. . It SO hard.

Someone tell me it will get easier (I know i should know this but its different when its your own)

I think, he is just going to have to get use to it, can you let him a muslin that smells of you, or some kind of comforter that he can take in to help?

How was the transition done?
We have lots of short visits to the next room with their key person and any other children who are moving up. Their new key person also has visits to the baby room.

Also we found that if you drop off into the baby room each morning and they spend the day in the bigger room then return for night time hand over this helped too.

dribble, can he not just stay in the room he was in for a bit longer??

sorry posted to soon... leave him in the room he was in, and then try and move jhim again a bit more gradually

Hi,

Visits were planned very carefully as they know what he is like! Hiss key person is fab and spent a long time preparing him. Think its a case of letting him sort it out. As it turns out i went home sick in the afternoon and when he came home (daddy collected him) they had printed loads of photo's for me and he looked fine!

Thisisyesterday - I'm sure they would but think its always gonna be a struggle with him. He very change adverse! Should have seen the tears over not wearing socks in bed last night! In the end went to bed in thick socks (as usual - its one of his things) and i went in and whipped them off once he was asleep!

I'm feeling a bit more sensible about the whole thing now, its just hard isn't it.