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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can make a social story book with her. Take a picture of her ready to go to school in the morning. Take a picture of you ready to go to work. Then use a few pages stapled together in a book format. Put words like: In the morning, Susie goes to school and Mommy and Daddy go to work. Susie is in Ms. Maria’s class. Susie has a cubby for her things. Susie will play with her friends and have snack. Susie likes to play on the playground and do art. Susie misses Mommy and Daddy, but they know she is safe at school and they will be back soon. It’s okay to be sad. At work, Mommy and Daddy have desks. They go to meetings and do work. After work, Mommy picks up Susie, and they go home to have dinner and whatever. On the weekends, the family has fun together.

Adapt as needed.

This is about separation from loved ones and tolerating the natural distress. As long as you are sure she is safe and happy, just stick with the routine and tell her you know she will be okay and you will be back, and acknowledge that you will miss each other. [/quote]

OP here, WHO SUGGESTED THIS?!?!  I hope you read this because YOUR SUGGESTION WORKED.  We made the book last weekend - it's silly, 9 pages about Larla goes to school.  She gets ready, takes her sister to the bus, drives to school, sees her friends in room 4, plays all day and mommy works, she comes homes and goes to sleep.  She spent a few days coloring it and her teacher "read it" to the class a few times.  NOW SHE HUGS HER TEACHER HI AND DOESN'T CRY.  For either DH or myself.  Thank you for the suggestion, I love my DCUM community!  [/quote]

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