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Jennifer K.
Mom, Canyon, TX
Preschool, K-5th Grade
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In Dealing with Separation Anxiety in Children
I have never gone through anything as intense as what you describe. My little guy had always had a sitter (I started back to work at 3 weeks) so starting preschool was not a problem. However, we've moved a couple times, and as a 5-yr-old he found it very disturbing and began to really cling. After all, I'm the only constant for him in these different locations.
I found that, different from what seems to have worked with your daughter, it helped if I sometimes (not always) let him see how I felt about the separation. I never get exasperated with him for being upset, but occasionally when he doesn't want to go, I'll get down on his level, put my arms around him and say "I know. I don't want to either. We love each other so much and it will be so good to be back together at the end of the day." I don't turn on fake tears, but I don't stop the real ones either.
That's what works for us. I figure it's a combo of validating and agreeing with his feelings and showing him that we've both got to suck it up and get on with it.
When I get to where I'm going on rough mornings, I give myself a couple minutes to look at pictures of him or think about happy times together in the last couple days and think about sappy songs about how fast kids grow and how the stuff that seems like such a pain now is what you miss later. That helps me accept and deal with my own emotions, and then I can turn to whatever else I need to do.
Good luck!
In Make Your Own Solar Panels?
Why would they have to be hooked up to the meter? Couldn't I just run them straight to whatever appliances I was using them for, or to a battery?
In Tips for packing a diaper bag
When my babe was little I used to go nuts about the diaper bag. I had bought everything the sitter said she needed, so she had all supplies at her house. But she wanted the diaper bag for outings to the library or park (great!) and I did not need it at work, so I left it with her. Most of the supplies, of course, are only used a little at a time, or don't get used up at all, but I'd give her a diaper bag with 4 or 5 diaps in it, and almost always get it back empty or with just one. More than once we'd stop somewhere on our 45 min drive home and I'd change him, only to have him fill up the diap before we got all hte way home. Sure, they're in the bag to be used, but since I was paying her (not the other way around) I couldn't believe I had to restock her supplies (and I did make sure she always had sufficient diaps at her house to be able to refill, so that wasn't the issue)
In Using Allowance for Kids to Save Money
Ha!
When my son (5) started getting an allowance, he'd still ask me to buy stuff. I'd tell him "sure you can have it, if you have the money". It was amazing how little he thought was worth spending his money on.
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