Attn: Parents and Teachers - Separation Anxiety and Children

My son, who's 4 1/2, had a really harrowing time settling into his preschool... though it was only two days a week he'd be teribly upset when I left adn get very emotional when I arrived to pick him up too. The teachers told me he asked for me all day. This went on for weeks and then one of the teachers suggested I give him picture of me he could carry around and look at when he was upset - sort of a reminder, I guess.

It worked really well, tho I had to print them out constantly because they kept going into the laundry in his pockets! Hope that helps.

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I don't specialize in child psych, but I am a daycare provider and have seen different levels of anxiety when kids are dropped off with me (usually not a big deal, but around certain ages, it tends to be more so).