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- From: cn262@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cindy Carpenter)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Transition Times/Objects
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:59:51 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: cn262@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cindy Carpenter)
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- Do any of you more experienced parents have any advice about this
- situation?
-
- My daughter Abigail is 19 months old and goes to a family daycare every
- weekday afternoon. My husband takes her there and I pick her up. She seems
- perfectly content when he leaves her and seems to have a fine time when
- she's there. When I arrive at the end of the day, though, she'll flash me
- a big grin for a second, but then move immediately into near hysteria. She
- runs around and picks up her things (snowsuit, hat, backpack, lambskin,
- doll or animal), brings them over to me and points very urgently, then runs
- on to the next object, all the while almost-crying. She doesn't yet talk
- (except for "no" and "yeah"), though her comprehension is quite good.
-
- My usual routine has been to accept all of her objects and proceed to pack
- them up and then to put on her snowsuit/jacket - but despite her apparent
- urgency, this always elicits frantic screams, and I wind up having to more
- or less force it on. She's usually not happy about putting on her jacket
- in other situations, but this is always the worst, (though her daycare
- provider says Abigail is always cooperative about getting dressed with
- *her* (figures, eh?)). This has been going on for several weeks now, and
- at first I figured it was just a phase and we'd eventually move out of it.
- It seems to have gotten more intense lately, though, and I'm having a
- harder time dealing with it. What's also been happening lately is that she
- want to hold things throughout the process, and during all other
- transitions into and out of one place to another. We figured this is the
- beginnings of the common attachment to a "transition object," but she wants
- to hold 3 or 4 things, and different ones all the time.
-
- So, what can you tell me about this? Is this kind of behavior common? Is
- there anything I can do to reduce the stress/anxiety for both of us?
- Should I try to slow down the packing up process? Should I encourage
- attachment to one particular thing? Does her rush to pack up and leave
- indicate something about how she's feeling at daycare, or is it just about
- having a hard time dealing with the transition?
-
- Thanks for your thoughts,
- Cindy
- email ccarpent@bbn.com
-