First Time Seperation

I am also 25 years old with a 2 year old. My daughter does not go to daycare her grandmother watches her full time. The first time I left her there my heart fell to the ground. After she got alittle older she would never cry and she would never want to come home with me. That hurt!! I had just so changed my hours because it was more money and my husband and I needed it financially. I would come home around 8:30 and would spend time with her in the morning. I swear I walked through that door and it was "MOMMY MOMMY". She now at 2 never wants to stay with grandma it has to be home with mommy. So do not get disturbed about it he will soon want to come home that was just his first day.

Wait til your kid is 10 and it's the first day of sleepover camp and he just hops out of the car and runs off without even saying goodbye! A mother never stops missing her child.

My daughter began preschool last fall. The Mom's were allowed to stick around in a meeting room, and peek in on their kids, and/or be there if their kids really had a tough time. Mine did fine. She told me she would help the kids that were crying, and tell them their mommy would be back soon. I've been home all 3 1/2 years with her, were involved in the International MOMS club. www.momsclub.org, so she's had some good socializing. I saw it both ways, kids crying and clinging, and others doing great. Mostly it was moms who lingered and had a tough time feeling confident. The teachers have told me that confidence in the parents and letting go quickly, tells the kids their safe, and enables independence and confidence in the kids quicker.

my 4 year old started pre-k last sept. and he was always with me before that. i felt a little bit of my heart break when i watched him walk into the school and the doors shutting behind him. i didn't cry, tho, and i am surprised at myself that i didn't pull over and sob uncontrollably!