Just wondered if anyone else had been through this and could offer any advice. I work full time as a teacher so have six weeks holiday, one week has gone by. DD and I have had a lovely week and she has been calm and easy to entertain. She's 20 months so doesn't play independently much and likes to be in the room doing what I am doing or me playing with her but she will go off on her own for 5 minutes every now and then.
However, whenever there is someone else around she is very clingy, won't let me put her down, stops talking (she speaks in phrases at home e.g. catch it ball mummy!') . This weekend has been really hard as she is also doing this with DH. She literally won't leave me alone for a second and not only is this annoying but it is upsetting him as well!
Is the best thing to pick her up and let her become independent in her own time or to insist that she walks, lets daddy do her nappy etc even thought it upsets her?