Postby Polster21 » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:32 pm
Hi,
I totally sympathise. My little one, now 3.5, started nursery at 12 months. She was an extremely clingy child, would pretty much cry if I went to the loo, let alone left her at a nursery! Her nursery at the time did 4 settling sessions of an hour each where I stayed with her, then cold turkey there after. I'm not going to lie and say the first few weeks at nursery were a walk in the park, but she got there in the end and after about 3 weeks, all of a sudden, loved going to nursery and hasn't looked back. If I'm honest, I think prolonging the agony doesn't necessarily make it any better. My daughter is still not great at being left in new environments, and is changing nurseries soon, where I'll hope for the shortest settling in possible as I think the more I hang about, the worse it is! Good luck! You'll look back on it in a few months and think how far you've come!