My wife and I live by the idea, at least with the kids anyway, that everything relating to them is a phase. Both good and bad everything that they do will change with a little time. Of course there are always a few exceptions here and there (eating, breathing…), but for the most part this has seemed to ring true since we first became parents.

Our latest example of this has shown itself this past week or two with dropping off my daughter at both school and daycare. She has been in school now only about a month and a half and she absolutely LOVES it. She has actually said to me a few times that she didn’t want to go home at the end of the day. This is after she has been there for 8+ hours!! So, the issue clearly is not that she doesn’t want to be there. She loves it and she always gets excited with school days come around. Daycare is the exact same thing. She loves going, she gets excited to wake up in the mornings and go play with her friends. So why in the world would she cry and not let go of me when I drop her off? This has been the situation over the past number of mornings. The only thing that we can think of is that she is going through a very clingy phase. All kids do it and we knew that we would be facing this sometime in her young life.

While it is so frustrating and time consuming when she does this I also try to be as accommodating as possible and assure her that I will be back soon to pick her up. I don’t want to scar her for life just so I can get to work!! It does seem now that this episode is diminishing about as quickly as it has come to be. This morning went perfectly as it usually does and not a tear was shed. Luckily she is getting to the age now where talking and reasoning with her is working more and more. We had a long chat last night and I think that is what did the trick. Hopefully this phase is about over and we can look forward to the next one. Whatever that may be…

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