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[quote=Anonymous]Does she "hate preschool" or does she "hate dropoff/transition"?

Those are different things.  Ask her teachers to tell you EXACTLY how long she is crying in the morning.  Ask them not to sugar coat it - "please tell me the # of minutes she cried this morning.  And if it's 20 minutes, please tell me, I really do want to know."

If it's 2 or 3 minutes, or even 5 minutes, and then she goes off and plays, gets involved, and doesn't cry any other time during the day, then she likes preschool and hates the transition/drop off.  If it's this, then you do very fast drop offs - create a short routine, do it (put away lunch box, something silly like a kiss on the nose, forehead and each ear)  and then LEAVE.  Prolonging it only prolongs the whole thing, because the hard thing is the saying goodbye - if that takes 20 minutes, then that's 20 upset minutes, plus it takes a while to come down off that upset.

If she cries 15 or 20 minutes or more, or she calms in 5 minutes but an hour later she cries for another 10-20 minutes about missing Mom, wanting to go home, etc, then she hates preschool.

Also, does she ever talk about her friends?  Does she ever talk about friends at school/camp?

You could, alternatively, hire a babysitter, pull her from all preschool, and have her stay home this year, then try her in preschool the year before kindergarten.  If she's 31/2 years old now, and she lives in the DMV, she will be going to kindergarten in 2018, so you have time.  [/quote]

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