My 20th month girl is very attached to me n vice versa. Enrolled her in playgroup and she keeps looking for me. Cried very very pitifully when a kid accidentally hits her. Teacher couldn't calm her n i had to go in. Im only allowed in bcoz today is the 1st class. How do all you mommies do it without feeling your heart breaking?

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I had the same thing happened on the first day when I enrolled my son in to childcare in Oct (he was 2 years old) - well, minus the getting sick part heh. The principal stepped in on the second day and told me to just leave him in school and go for breakfast and take a rest for a bit. I reluctantly left him and walked away while he was crying, and then I ended up crying on my way to breakfast because I felt so empty that he is growing up so fast and no longer needed me around. It took about 1 week for him to get used to it, but by week 2 - he stopped crying! In fact, he started liking school a lot :) We skipped about 2 weeks of school so far because he was sick, but he loves school so much now - to the extent he wakes up in the middle of the night and cries because he wants to go to school ... at 3am 🤪 I'd say to relax and trust in the teachers, they'd take a while to build good rapport with her but she'll be fine after! As for you, take it as a break time for yourself - grab a nice breakfast before work or use the time to do some "me time" for yourself :)

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