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Giving up on this nursery

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CampariSpritz · 08/06/2018 21:12

DD is 3 and a half. I work four days a week: during that time DD spends two days with my mother and two days with her lovely nanny. As she was getting too big for all her toddler classes, in April we started a couple of sessions a week with a private nursery, really just to give her a social life with peers.

From the start she has said that she doesn’t like it (in particular, she says that there are two teachers that she doesn’t like) and in the last two weeks she has cried inconsolably when dropped off. Today, it was so bad that her nanny brought her home. Nanny has been with us since DD was 10 months old and said that she has never seen her so upset. Worryingly, she soiled herself, which is totally out of character: she has been toilet trained for over a year and has never once had an accident. I feel dreadful about this - DD is a happy, resilient, sociable little girl and I feel so guilty at making her have such a miserable experience. I am minded not to send her back and take a break over the summer them try somewhere else. My DH thinks that I am pandering to her, but I think today was quite extreme and certainly not her ‘trying it on’. Any thoughts or opinions as to what you would do or have done in similar circumstances would be gratefully received. Thank you.

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HSMMaCM · 09/06/2018 17:18

I'd take her out and try somewhere else for September. She's only little and she doesn't have to be there.

Ullupullu · 09/06/2018 17:25

Trust your gut instinct and quit it. Try somewhere else or just ask the nanny to arrange play dates with other local kids.

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 09/06/2018 17:30

Even if she is ‘trying it on’, she’s clearly not happy to be there and since she doesn’t need to be, that would be enough for me to pull her out. Our children shouldn’t have to be full on mentally scarred before we take notice. I think you’re right OP.

CampariSpritz · 09/06/2018 20:10

Thank you all: I appreciate it and I agree fully. We’ll try somewhere else after the summer. I think insisting in something at 3 and a half is just going to cause upset for her, rather than a life lesson. Thank you!

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