Settling In Every Morning

Guest · 2011-03-08T20:18:33+0000

We have been open as a playgroup providing 2 1/2 hours every morning for children aged 3 - we are now up to 8 children 3 days a week and 6 2 days a week We have one little boy who we don't know how to handle. Initially he came in with his mum holding tightly onto her leg with one arm every morning. Gradually he loosened the grip and came in without mum. However over the past week we have noticed he has regressed never letting his mum go despite all our persuasion, asking him to help us do something, talking about mum leaving etc all to no avail. Mum does slip away when he lets go of her leg but on realising his mum is gone he starts to "pretend" cry - no tears and very quickly is distracted to play. We are convinced this has become a habit to get attention but it is how to deal with it. We seem to be focusing all our efforts on this one child every morning and cannot seem to get any ease. Yesterday we had another new start - she was fine yesterday morning with mum bringing her and letting her go immediately. Today dad just stayed and of course she clung on for dear life. Eventually when she became distracted I motioned dad to leave and he took the hint without saying a word - it worked as the child never realised he had left and didn't make a fuss. We have another little girl who was quite happy to come in to playgroup when it started but now she has started a thing of running back out to the hallway to her mum to ask for another hug and kiss. Today another little girl came in just after her and she was happy to come into playgroup with this friend. The playgroup door is open for all our children to come in every morning and they do so but this one child seems to look in and then run back to mum. Are we dealing with things correctly? Anyone got any hints as to how to work with the little boy - should we ask mum to say goodbye to the boy and hand his hand into ours at the door or should she just continue coming in with him into the playgroup and wait for an opportunity to leave? What about the little girl with her habit of running back to mum - how do we handle her?

By Guest terrydoo73
March 8, 2011 in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues

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