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full on tears everyday.wouldn’t say why. Turns out she didn’t want to upset me. She’d not understood why I was being left out, and when she asked,the teacher said no mum can’t come to school too.
so all she saw everyday was not me saying bye to her and leaving but she saying goodbye to me,on my own and her leaving!

My youngest at 5 demanded boxer shorts like daddy and big bro, he didn’t want girl pants like his sister.
I dutifully went out the next day and got a 10 pack of white boxers age 5, he was thrilled and couldn’t wait to wear them for school the next day.
Roll forward to next day 4.00pm, school bus drops him off outside the house, he marches in, slams the door and chucks his school bag across the hallway.
I asked what the problem was, I’ll show you what the problem is he said whilst dropping his trousers, he stood there in the rather baggy white boxers……I said they are what you wanted what’s wrong?
He replied “ it was PE today and they are longer than my PE shorts”
My husband and myself were helpless with laughter.
Girl pants were reinstated.

Negotiating what to wear is a nightmare - I can do mummy !! - wellies - red shorts and his green Christmas jumper was the latest ensemble to get to nursery on time.

My nearly two year old son had a complete meltdown whilst changing his nappy first thing in the morning so we wiped him down and let him run about with no nappy on...... 10mins later he starts doing a poo, skids marks on the bed sheets before we sit him on the toilet, fortunately we were staying in a hotel and was due to check out....

My 3 Yr olds nursery teacher pulled me aside at pick up. My son had told the teachers (and some prospective parents) that I was going into hospital to have my vagina removed as I was fed up of being a woman and would rather be a man. (I was just having a pollip removed)

My child spent his first two years pretty much with mummy- day and night.
He started nursery when 2 1/2 yo.
For the first two weeks he was happy and smiley and I was amazed. Then soon after he had enough of it and cried every morning for the next five months up to the time the nursery were shut for the pandemic.
I aged 5 years in those 5 months as it's just so difficult to leave them like that.

I took my then 5 year old daughter go karting and as I was whizzing around I suddenly hear her shouting “this is fing amazing” I kept trying to correct her and say “it’s freaking amazing” but she kept insisting “no it’s fing”. At that point I gave up and left it. Till this day I have no idea where she heard that phrase and thankfully she hasn’t used it since.

Seeing the other side of it as a childminder, I realised that the children will scream sooo much for about 1 minute. Once parent is out of sight, they settle and play nicely and are happy the rest of the day. So when I dropped my daughter to pre-school and she did the same, I knew it would only last a few moments. I used to say to parents dropping kids off to me to take as long as they needed before saying goodbye, but once they say goodbye to go fast and don't look back as that helped the child settle better than a long drawn-out goodbye.

My DS started nursery last month and we were told he might be upset the first couple of weeks and he may not eat much or anything at all at meal times while he is settling in. When picking him up on his first day, we were told he'd eaten all of his breakfast, lunch, and tea, and had even been given extra!

DS 1 didn't settle at all - I really needed the break so was desperate for him to settle quickly, we used a sticker chart, one for him and one for the chart at home, and once we had 5 stars he could pick a treat from a list we had negotiated - even with a couple of near misses - looking at his gold star on his jumper gave him the. motivation to enjoy his time at nursery

Awww I am literally living this right now!!! My youngest child who has just turned 6 has had a run of a good few weeks of not wanting to goto which ends in tears most days and its so distressing for me though probably hillarious for some people watching! It starts off with him mentioning he doesn't want to goto school numerical times as we walk to school which is about a 15 minute walk. In the scholl queue he then thinks of manu excuses as to why he shouldn't goto school for example feeling ill, tummy ache, headache, too tired, school is boring, he wants to spend the day with me or come to work with me and then just as the kids gey to go in class as soon as my son reaches about 1 metre from the classroom door he freezes and refuses to go into the classroom. He just goes mute and refuses to go in like all yhe other kids. I've had teachers and myself trying to coax him in and he just won't budge or day why he doesn't want to go in! It then results in the deputy head coming out after about 15 minutes of this and telling me to leave whilst she gets another teacher to watch him and then another to lock the school gate or he tries to run after me to escape school. It's so upsetting and I wish someone would help me sort it out but the school seem to just want to take a harsh approach, no nonsense they say but it's not helping. On the plus side my partner is so sick of me crying about it that he has started doing the school run the past 2 days and guess what!!! The kid just walks into school normally 😳 so maybe it's just me!!!!!

Ha! just realised it said school gates mine were in public but not school gates!

Gosh yes, name changed…

This summer we welcomed our second baby girl. Our first, a “spirited” toddler has been mostly great with her but determined to show her off at every opportunity. We have also had some building work done and our neighbours asked us to look after their kitten for a few days - so lots going on and difficult to keep track of everything.

One day before going to nursery my toddler kept telling me she wanted to “take her in to show everyone!”, which I naively assumed was the new baby. Slightly smugly I told everyone how proud DD was of her new baby sister and just how caring she was.

Until one day I looked at the nursery group WhatsApp to see some of the parents talking about how a kitten had been found in the toddler room and were wondering how it had got in. To cut a long story short, DD had somehow smuggled the kitten in to her nursery bag (a duffle number which was mostly empty due to it being summer and no coat etc needed) which had then escaped in to the toddler room.

The worst thing was I hadn’t actually noticed thanks to the new baby / building work and realised with absolute embarrassment then every time DD had talked about how much she wanted to show “her” off, she actually meant the neighbours kitten, and not her darling baby sister.

I'm a reproductive health nurse. DD asked me how a baby gets in the mummys tummy. I told her the baby arrives after people have wished for it. In my defense I wasn't ready for the question and she's only 6. I know exactly how to answer this in an age appropriate way so no idea why I said it

DS was taken to nursery on the back of my bike before it was cool. He loved putting on his 'space helmet' and waving to his friends on the way home. One or two of them saw him and had tantrums - and the number of kids on bikes to nursery suddenly increased!

My daughter used to hate me taking her to nursery! She used to try and do everything she could at home to stop me leaving the house. Hiding shoes, hiding her nursery bag, spilling things on herself on purpose haha

I used to drive my daughter and her best friend to nursery half the mornings of the week. I had a little saying for them in the car 'two little sausages in the pan one went pop and the other went bag'. I'd pause for one to say pop, the other bang. Only they'd both argue to teats because they both wanted to be bang.

They also argued about who got out of the car first so I had to drive a different way round the avenue every other morning so they took turns getting out of the car first! What fun.

Despite all the bickers they are still very close to this day. Both 22 and hugely creative. Funny girls.

My DD one took a pocket full of tampons to nursery and gave them out as baby mice - I did not know she had stuffed them into her pockets ! - the teacher had put them onto an envelope at the end of the session mortified

OMG this is brilliant.

My own DD has always been clingy. Was a nightmare dropping her off with all the screaming and the wailing. One day at nursery she thought it would make her feel better if she could take a small flower shaped bead home. So she stuck it up her nose. Cue Mjmmy being called to school and us sitting in A&E for 4 hours.

My 1 and a half year old is obsessed with opening and closing things and shouting "open" and "close". GREAT I thought, she's learning through play! This was until one day the bag that her toy bricks in came in disappeared. We looked high and low until she pointed proudly to the kitchen and said "bin!".

Lo and behold the bag, and some other toys, were sitting in a half full kitchen bin and stank to high heaven. It is now a daily effort to stop her putting all her favourite things in the bin, extending to her even trying to climb in the bin. She has also tried to drop her bath toys and her favourite cuddly toy into the loo for similar reasons.

She will cry if we explain to her that these ~aren't safe things~, and as much as I'm trying to be the responsible parent, there is a strong temptation to go with the flow and scream GET IN THE BIN. She probably would.

When my son was 4, I went through such a troublesome time with him- he used to cry every single day on the way to school and would scream and cry going in.
I, as his mum and a first time mum, would get emotional though i tried not to show it, as I was anxious that he was upset going into school.

After 3 months of daily crying and receiving teacher support, I asked the teacher why he’s not improving. They told me to watch at the window when he goes in. He screamed and cried as normal. He hung his coat up screaming and crying. However, when I moved to the window, I saw him walk in crying, stand, wipe his tears, smile and run to the toys 😂 he clearly struggled saying bye to me but was fine once inside 😂

our most recent horror story is courtesy of my drama loving 8 year old. My husband is one of those people who likes to do things like leave his dirty clothes near the laundry basket or dirty plates near the dishwasher. After having to tell him one too many time about this I told him if he did it again I would divorce him.
Unknown to me little Miss 8 heard this, she went to school and told EVERYONE we were getting divorced. I got a call from the school because she was so upset, they sent her to see the family support worker and gave her “special books” about divorce, they even went and spoke to her autistic sister about it (who was very confused). The teacher bollocked me for not informing them about this big life event. Lesson learnt, those little ears hear everything

My minime threw a tantrum on the second day of school because she thought she'd only have to go once and was disappointed that it was actually a regular thing lol. She was like, but I went yesterday.

On the first day of nursery my DD went in quite happily, but to my horror with a big beamy smile she called out 'Hello monkey' to a cute little Asian toddler standing across the room. This was in front of everyone, and boy was my face red! Living in a small rural village this was her first encounter.