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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Aug 31, 2017 8:01:34 GMT -6
So we transitioned DD to daycare in late April from staying home with my mom. After a horrific few weeks at a center we found a wonderful inhome daycare. DD loves loves loves it. She asks if she can on weekends, talks about her all her friends there, is regularly sad to leave, etc. Bonus: it's super conveniently located, I love all the other parents, and it's affordable. Unfortunately for us, the provider was offered (and accepted) her dream job from an application submitted much much earlier in the year.
I have two weeks to find new care AND transition my DD (just turned 2). Any suggestions? I have no idea how to talk to her about this and get her excited for some place new. She's very sensitive and very shy in new situations. This daycare is a huge part of her life and I'm afraid this is going to rock her little world. Am I overreacting? Maybe I just need hair pats that we will all survive this? Halp.
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Post by sheilathetank on Aug 31, 2017 8:28:00 GMT -6
So we transitioned DD to daycare in late April from staying home with my mom. After a horrific few weeks at a center we found a wonderful inhome daycare. DD loves loves loves it. She asks if she can on weekends, talks about her all her friends there, is regularly sad to leave, etc. Bonus: it's super conveniently located, I love all the other parents, and it's affordable. Unfortunately for us, the provider was offered (and accepted) her dream job from an application submitted much much earlier in the year. I have two weeks to find new care AND transition my DD (just turned 2). Any suggestions? I have no idea how to talk to her about this and get her excited for some place new. She's very sensitive and very shy in new situations. This daycare is a huge part of her life and I'm afraid this is going to rock her little world. Am I overreacting? Maybe I just need hair pats that we will all survive this? Halp. I think your concern is valid, since a transition like this can be a big change. What are the other parent's doing? It may help the transition if she goes to the same place as one of her daycare friends.Can your mom take her a day or two each week to help with the transition? |
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Aug 31, 2017 10:32:00 GMT -6
sheilathetank my friend and I are working really hard to keep our girls together. The only silver lining is that we have vacation/conferences scheduled coming up so we had already planned to use all our "leave of absence" days over the next 6 weeks - DD will either be out of town or MIL/my mom had planned to watch her at least one day a week during that period of time. I think I'm also just dreading the inevitable hysterics at drop off. I hope we find a place soon so we can start talking it up.
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Post by sheilathetank on Aug 31, 2017 10:38:55 GMT -6
sheilathetank my friend and I are working really hard to keep our girls together. The only silver lining is that we have vacation/conferences scheduled coming up so we had already planned to use all our "leave of absence" days over the next 6 weeks - DD will either be out of town or MIL/my mom had planned to watch her at least one day a week during that period of time. I think I'm also just dreading the inevitable hysterics at drop off. I hope we find a place soon so we can start talking it up. That's good that you have a plan and can ease into the transition. You can phrase it like "You're such a big girl now that you get to go to a big girl school" or something to that effect. Try talking it up as something special and maybe it will be easier? |
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Post by billyhorrible on Aug 31, 2017 11:03:42 GMT -6
We moved my son from an in-home to a center at 20 months and I was a little trepidatious about it because he loved his caregiver and she loved him, plus all his friends were there.
Luckily, the place we were transferring to was where my other son already was, which made transition a little easier. The kids all start off together at first, and separate around 8am into separate age-based classes. And he cried when that happened, going to a new place, with a new teacher, and new kids. For the first couple of days he told me he cried at school. But his teacher was very kind and spent a lot of time holding him and it wasn't long until he developed a relationship with her.
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Post by sheilathetank on Aug 31, 2017 11:11:25 GMT -6
It may also be a good idea, wherever you end up, to have the teacher up to speed on the events that transpired leading to all the changes. That way they can be prepared if things go south and move in to redirect/distract/comfort etc.
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