

Trying to coerce children to say they love you and give you 1,000 kisses only makes things worse. If your child can make an easy break with one, but not the other, let that parent try to help during those early days until the child sees that school isn’t such a terrible place. Sometimes it’s mom and sometimes it’s dad. If possible, send the parent who is less likely to cause this reaction early on.One of the best methods for combatting anxiety is to be prepared. This behavior might be demonstrating some separation anxiety Talk through the drop-off period and the day with your child until you are both sick of talking about it.Then, they have to spend the whole day worrying if their child is OK or building a need for therapy from their mounting sense of abandonment.

It seems painful for the child and is probably the most painful on mom or dad who is attempting to pry themselves away. They are picturing their children crying and hanging on to a leg shouting, “Mommy! Don’t leave me here!” My heart goes out to those families because that must be really difficult. I know there are parents who are terrified of how their child will do on their first day of school. Let’s talk about some of the different types of children and their first day experiences. Some children and parents handle this transition without a problem, for others it can be a bit more challenging. which more or less I took without a hitch, but this somehow seems infinitely more epic and life changing. My son’s first day of school is coming up … as in his first day of kindergarten.
