I'm not sure where to post this. I originally put it in Learning At School but I guess it could fit here or Parenting...
My DS is 3 and has never been "dropped off" anywhere. The only thing we have done is left him with my mom and dad for mommy and daddy date night for a few hours.
He knows school is coming because we talk about it a lot but I don't know if he truly understands what is going to happen. It's 3 days a week for 2.5 hours. My fear is that he will cry and I understand that's normal. He goes to speech therapy now which separates us for a half hour and he does fine. There were one or two instances where he cried and didn't go in the room with the therapist. She suggested he just go back there and just work it out. That killed me! We never did CIO. So that was really difficult for me to listen to and that lasted a mere 3 minutes until I went back there and grabbed him. He clung to me and passed out on my shoulder. But again, that was only one or two times and I think it was either when he was getting over a cold or super tired. Every other session, he loves to go and happily walks into the room, leaving me in the waiting room.
School is another story though. Am I supposed to leave if he is crying? It's not Montessori/Waldorf or anything - just a regular preschool but it's very nurturing which is why I chose it. He loves the teachers there (he goes to Mommy & me there with me now) and they are very loving and will hold the child if they are crying and so on. All the moms there say it's normal and you only make it worse on them and yourself if you stick around. Sigh...but I cannot fathom just leaving him there if he is upset. It's just not the kind of mom that I am! I know he is 3yo but it's very difficult for me. Hopefully this will be a moot point and he won't cry. I'm thinking in the beginning he won't. Then, time will pass and he will look around and see that I'm not there and it will kick in! Help!
My DS is 3 and has never been "dropped off" anywhere. The only thing we have done is left him with my mom and dad for mommy and daddy date night for a few hours.
He knows school is coming because we talk about it a lot but I don't know if he truly understands what is going to happen. It's 3 days a week for 2.5 hours. My fear is that he will cry and I understand that's normal. He goes to speech therapy now which separates us for a half hour and he does fine. There were one or two instances where he cried and didn't go in the room with the therapist. She suggested he just go back there and just work it out. That killed me! We never did CIO. So that was really difficult for me to listen to and that lasted a mere 3 minutes until I went back there and grabbed him. He clung to me and passed out on my shoulder. But again, that was only one or two times and I think it was either when he was getting over a cold or super tired. Every other session, he loves to go and happily walks into the room, leaving me in the waiting room.
School is another story though. Am I supposed to leave if he is crying? It's not Montessori/Waldorf or anything - just a regular preschool but it's very nurturing which is why I chose it. He loves the teachers there (he goes to Mommy & me there with me now) and they are very loving and will hold the child if they are crying and so on. All the moms there say it's normal and you only make it worse on them and yourself if you stick around. Sigh...but I cannot fathom just leaving him there if he is upset. It's just not the kind of mom that I am! I know he is 3yo but it's very difficult for me. Hopefully this will be a moot point and he won't cry. I'm thinking in the beginning he won't. Then, time will pass and he will look around and see that I'm not there and it will kick in! Help!
