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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my DD (who is now 5) also displayed a lot of the characteristics you described at that age.  It would be hard to do now, but we enrolled her in 45 min classes where my DH or I could be nearby through a window (drop off library program, Little Gym, exc.). This helped her to separate from us gradually as I also did not enroll her in preschool at 3 for similar concerns as you. When she started at 4, she did great separating from us.

I also agree with other posters that it can be hard to tell if it is personality or a medical condition at such a young age. It will showcase itself over the next few years. For now you know best on how to manage/phrase situations to help her. For my DD she needs me to not ever act scared in a situation and offer lots of positive encouragement.  Right now she is a bit scared of flying bugs (before this is was dogs) and I have learned that the more knowledge she has about a situation the better she handles it. So we have been spending a lot of time at the library checking out books on insects and watching Youtube videos. I tell her it is ok to be nervous/scared but I remind her how much she loves playing outside and that we must figure out a way to make the outside ok with bugs around. We then go out and try to find the bugs she just learned about while trying to get us playing. It isn't perfect and she still gets nervous as is just something that takes time but it 10x better than a few months ago. It also helps that her younger sister is a bit of a daredevil so it gives her a bit of modeling.

Best of luck, you are doing great OP![/quote]

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