3 year old doesn't want to come home from preschool

[MumOfHals]

My little girl is 3.5 years old and in the last month, she's had 2 episodes where she's cried upon pick up time and said 'I don't want to go home' - I am mortified.

This seems to have happened since my little girl has found out I have a baby in my belly...

She absolutely loves preschool, but equally every day she gets in the car and is singing and dancing and playing so happily with us when she gets home...

Even after these episodes she's completely fine when she's in the car!!!!

I'm so worried what must the school think....

She's loved and cared for to the ends of the earth!!!!

I'm not sure if it's my hormones but I feel really sad.

Try not to worry, school will think it's a completely normal thing for a child of her age to do, lots of kids have so much fun at nursery that they don't want to go home.

I think preschool are probably just amused, and delighted she's having such a good time there. You've brought up a confident sociable child, well done and don't fret.

She just doesn't want to stop doing the fun thing she's doing in that moment.

It's like how they don't want to leave the park, or softplay.

It's not anything against you or home, she's just enjoying herself which is a good thing.

I have one that cried on the way out or had to be encouraged out. Yes it’s a bit strange but much easier than peeling the child off you to get them in there. (Child number 2).
Either they are secure enough to be happy away from you or they just like the busyness. Child 1 still loves school. God knows how I’m going to get child 2 in there every day!

My DD used to do this after a play date- she’d hide at the other persons house and say she didn’t want to go home. Mortifying 😭

it doesn’t really mean they don’t want to go home, only that they’re having fun and don’t want it to stop. Pre-school won’t think anything of it.

My dd at that age used to be the same about leaving anywhere she was having fun. As a pp says above, she was a confident and sociable little one and really loved being with her friends. The same as your dd she was fine the minute we were away. It's great she's enjoying nursery so much. It's heart wrenching watching the opposite side of the coin when you get the ones that sob on leaving so this is the best case scenario

It's completely normal.

At pre-school there are friends and lots of different toys. Painting, play-doh, Little Tikes cars, shaving foam in a tuff spot.

My MIL did a lot of childcare for us and dd was often the same when I arrived to pick her up.

It's pretty normal.

Normal. Kids delight in making you look like a shit.

So normal. My 3.5yo says the same sometimes. He adores his preschool and has so much fun there. He very often says "why are you here already?" and "oh no! not you! Not yet! oh mannn". I try not to talk it personally haha

My 4 yr old DS never wanted to leave a birthday party. He’d be asking for a play date to take place immediately after the party ended. It made me worry he’d be closing down bars and nightclubs in his 20’s. Although that hasn’t been the case. He’s just a very social person.