How Does Your Daycare Handle Kids Who Are Crying?

[Hunni Bee]

My daughter is a crier. I believe she's got some anxiety issues and she doesn't really have the skills to notice when she starts feeling funny or how to cope, so she looks for things to cry about that she feels are "real".

She cries about things being the wrong color, me driving the wrong direction, me putting her socks on in the wrong order...there's no fix for any of that and trying to only exacerbates the crying. So I let her cry and release those feelings and she's usually fine when she's done.

But to an outside person, it would look like I'm ignoring my woefully sad sobbing daughter.

[Pestle]

My daughter is a crier. I believe she's got some anxiety issues and she doesn't really have the skills to notice when she starts feeling funny or how to cope, so she looks for things to cry about that she feels are "real".

She cries about things being the wrong color, me driving the wrong direction, me putting her socks on in the wrong order...there's no fix for any of that and trying to only exacerbates the crying. So I let her cry and release those feelings and she's usually fine when she's done.

But to an outside person, it would look like I'm ignoring my woefully sad sobbing daughter.

Mine won't eat until she's so hungry that she goes apes*** on us. But she gets it; she'll eventually stop screaming and flailing, and she'll melt onto me while sobbing, "My body is sad because it's too much hungry!"