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Preschool Prep Series

Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

By Tara Swords

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Diamond points out that in many such cases, the child is simply reacting to the parent's subtle cues.

"If the parent feels less comfortable about it, sometimes they'll communicate that to their child. They'll say, 'I'll stay with you,' or, 'If you don't want to stay we can go home and come back tomorrow,''' Diamond says. "The child's going to pick up on that."

While offering to take the child out of the unfamiliar environment might initially make him feel better, it could simply prolong the inevitable and complicate every preschool morning thereafter.

Easing the Transition
By the age of 3, most children have been separated from their parents at one time or another. Even in the case of stay-at-home-moms, there has typically been a need for a babysitter or other child care at some point. All those experiences reinforce confidence and a child's idea that his mother would never leave him in a dangerous place.

That strategy worked for Donna Wolf when she first took her daughters to preschool.

"I played up that they're safe where they are," says Wolf. "You know, 'Momma wouldn't leave you anyplace that isn't safe. Momma wouldn't leave you with people who aren't nice. This is a common problem. It's not even a problem; it's a common experience."


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