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Originally posted by NW Native
One thing I did that was helpful was to have a specific good-bye hug and phrase at drop off. This was just for daycare. We'd go in, take off coat etc., and do whatever needed doing. But, when I started the good-bye hug he knew that even if he cried and carried on it was not going to earn additional cuddles. I think this helped lessen the days that we had the traumatic drop-off mentioned above.
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Sidd Jr. is on-again, off-again about the day care drop-off. Early on, when it was pretty consistently bad, Mrs. Finch would leave one of her hair-scrunch-things with him; that was the teacher's suggestion and it seemed to help, I guess by reassuring him that she would come back for him, or giving him some identifiable way to keep her in mind.
Once he got old enough to tell us about what he did during the day, any bad feelings about leaving him there disappeared.
