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[quote=Anonymous]We switched our son from a nanny share to a full time preschool when he was 26 months.  It was a tougher transition than I expected, but that said, I'm really glad we did it at 26 months instead of waiting longer.  He is absolutely thriving there now.  But it took about 12 weeks for him to get comfortable -- and that was a lot longer than I expected.  The teachers in his classroom seemed to think it was totally natural for him to have a rough time at drop off for a while and repeatedly reminded me that he was going from basically one-on-one care to a compeltely different environment.  And they were wonderful about giving him some extra TLC early on and wonderful about me calling once a day to check on him.  It was very naive of me but I assumed my super-confident easy going boy would have no trouble with the switch and boy was I wrong.  He cried every morning at the drop off for a month.  We didn't have another option b/c we had moved to be close to this specific school so we stuck it out but it was a terrible feeling.  After he the first week or so he stopped crying after we left and would be fine for the rest of the day.  But it was literally 12 weeks before he got to a point where it was no big deal at the drop off time.  Like so many things with kids and transitions, I'm glad we stuck it out through the tough time because he loves the school and the benefits are numerous for us - he eats better (more veggies) at home, he learns things I wouldn't have thought to teach him, he shares better, he sleeps better.  So it was certainly the right move for us, in our situation, but took some getting used to.  Good luck.  I will say that if you've found a school you really like, that means a lot.  [/quote]

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