Day Care Adjustment

If you remember, my daughter Olivia started a new day care two weeks ago. The Tuesday after she started, she came down with a stomach virus and has been sick off and on ever since. As a result, she hasn't been going every day to day care, so we've gotten off to a very rocky start. She cries and cries when she sees where we are, and clings to either me or my husband (whoever is dropping her off) like we're sending her to a concentration camp. It rips our heart out. We've started standing outside her class to see how long she cries, which so far the record has been three minutes (usually shorter), after which she starts playing happily. She cries for 3 minutes and then gets to play, while we're miserable for 10 hours.

Today, Jonny (my husband) got some encouragement from a couple of strangers at the day care. As he was walking in, Olivia was sobbing and clinging to him, and a woman was there dropping off her child who said, "It DOES get better." He told her he hoped so. Then, after he dropped Olivia off in her class, he was standing outside watching his watch to time how long she cried, and a different woman walked by and stopped, gave him a smile and said, "I used to do the exact same thing. I would stand outside and time how long she cried. But it gets much better." He replied that he certainly hoped so because it's been very hard on all of us to go through this. She said it takes a little while, but it gets better.

I'm ready for it to be better now.

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