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Hello everyone,
I am at a wit’s end here. My daughter has separation anxiety at school.
My 5 year old daughter started kindergarten last Wednesday.
At pick up, the teacher told me that she cried. I figured well it’s the first day, she’ll eventually get used to it. WRONG.
It’s been 8 days as of today, and out of those 8 days, only once did she have a cry-free day. I work, so my mother is the one that takes her to school. I took a day off on the first day so that I can take her and pick her up and meet her teacher.
My mom tells me that every day in the morning she is all smiles, and excited and even tells my mom to “hurry up” lol but at drop off she changes. She starts to get teary eyed and later we find out she was crying. When I ask my daughter why she cries she says it’s because she misses me. But this is everyday now. I figured she’d be used to it.
I have tried everything: I’ve tried talking to her about her emotions and validating her feelings, talked about how fun school can be and all the things she will learn. We talk about all the fun things she did, I told her it’s ok to miss me, but at the end of the day we will be see each other. I’ve read books to her, one of which a girl started a new school. But nothing seems to work.
this morning my mom fixed hair her up really nice, a hairdo that she requested and was excited to show off at school, but at drop off she started getting teary eyed. Now the teacher wants a parent conference with me and will refer her to a counselor to see if they can help her with her separation anxiety— which I am 100% for if this means it will help her cope.
i don’t know if maybe I’m doing something wrong. She rarely had this issue in preschool. I don’t know what else to do. I’m frustrated that I can’t seem to help my own child.
I am at a wit’s end here. My daughter has separation anxiety at school.
My 5 year old daughter started kindergarten last Wednesday.
At pick up, the teacher told me that she cried. I figured well it’s the first day, she’ll eventually get used to it. WRONG.
It’s been 8 days as of today, and out of those 8 days, only once did she have a cry-free day. I work, so my mother is the one that takes her to school. I took a day off on the first day so that I can take her and pick her up and meet her teacher.
My mom tells me that every day in the morning she is all smiles, and excited and even tells my mom to “hurry up” lol but at drop off she changes. She starts to get teary eyed and later we find out she was crying. When I ask my daughter why she cries she says it’s because she misses me. But this is everyday now. I figured she’d be used to it.
I have tried everything: I’ve tried talking to her about her emotions and validating her feelings, talked about how fun school can be and all the things she will learn. We talk about all the fun things she did, I told her it’s ok to miss me, but at the end of the day we will be see each other. I’ve read books to her, one of which a girl started a new school. But nothing seems to work.
this morning my mom fixed hair her up really nice, a hairdo that she requested and was excited to show off at school, but at drop off she started getting teary eyed. Now the teacher wants a parent conference with me and will refer her to a counselor to see if they can help her with her separation anxiety— which I am 100% for if this means it will help her cope.
i don’t know if maybe I’m doing something wrong. She rarely had this issue in preschool. I don’t know what else to do. I’m frustrated that I can’t seem to help my own child.