Julian is now 22 months old. This means he's been of the age to attend nursery now for 4 months. At first he did pretty good, but he's a tender hearted little guy and has a hard time when there are 12 other children trying to play with the same toy. Men are not allowed in the nursery except to drop off their child, which means it's up to me to get him transitioned before the baby is born.
I've tried just leaving him in there and letting him cry it out, it doesn't work he works himself into such a frenzy in about 5 minutes that they have to come and get me. I've tried sitting in there with him the whole time and I've tried sitting there until he doesn't notice me anymore and leaving for a period of time then coming back (always to a frantic screaming child).
I'm not sure what else to try... does anyone have any ideas on how to help him transition better to nursery? (And how I can keep my sanity in the process?)
One thing that will help is that starting next week there will only be 4 little guys in there instead of 10-15 :)
4 comments:
Oh girl I feel for you! Blake didn't finally go to nursery the whole time alone until he was like 26 months (by that time Spence was 2 months old). The thing that finally worked for Blake was bribery (we told him he could have stickers, candy, cookies, etc. when he got home if he stayed in nursery). Another thing that seemed to work was when the nursery leaders brought him to me we went and sat in a room...no sippy, no snacks, no fun! If he wanted to have fun he had to stay in nursery! Good Luck!!!
Persistence, persistence, persistence. He has to realize that you WILL come back for him. Once he understands this he will go into nursery just fine. So, maybe try talking to him about nursery throughout the week and reasure him that you will come back for him when your class is done. Maybe try calling it his "nursery class" then he will understand that you have your class and he has his class. Anyways hope this helps! Good luck!!
Something we did was we invited the nursery leaders over for dinner so that our kids could meet them and know them outside of nursery. It really helped with Cayden. Also we didn't drop Cayden off in Nursery we would ask a friend do it also. That also seemed to help. With Cassidy I was just called as a nursery leader so that really helped her have no problem with going to nursery.
Something that helped for Lyman and Corilynn when they did this was to tell the nursery leader some tricks that work with your kid to calm him down before they come to get you. For our kids a little one on one time with a toy - you know attention to show how that toy works - perfect destraction and a great way for them to feel safe because they learn they ahve a buddy in the class. Everytime the leaders started to do this one on one time - the kids started to want to be there. Good luck, i think this is a stage everyone goes through
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