It’s a heart wrenching situation, believe me- I understand.
You drive up to school/daycare, your child gets out with their little lunch box and water bottle with a bright smile that lights up your world.
You walk up to the teacher at the gate and give them a sympathetic smile because you both know what’s about to occur... And that’s when you see your child’s expression change and it clicks.
They’re going to leave me here!
Cue the tears, the painful pleads for you to stay, you promising you’ll come back as you pull little fingers off of you while they wail for you not to go. It makes it all the more dramatic when the teacher has to come and literally pry your crying child off of you and they lurch forward like they’ve been doomed to imprisonment.
You bounce back and forth between trying to decide if you should leave your child shrieking and make a mad dash for the car, or if you should try and console them some more.
The teacher’s looking at you with a tight lipped smile while they wrestle with your squirming kid, at least 3 other parents have successfully shoved their kiddo’s in the door and are already in their car leaving.
Here you are wondering how many more days will it take before they can get used to drop-off and pick-up without such an emotional upheaval.
On this episode we´ll discuss:
- How to react to intense emotions
- How to help your kids adjust to changes
- The right way to handle your kids emotions
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