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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our 3.5 year old is acting pretty normally (even-keeled much of the time; wild mood swings at other times!).  He doesn’t seem to be missing his nanny or preschool very much.  The biggest issue is a lot of fighting with his little sister, who started walking and encroaching on his space during quarantine.  He’s starting pre-k in the fall, so I’m a little concerned about how he will handle that.  I don’t think he’s going to get to have a proper goodbye (or a goodbye at all) to his preschool friends and teachers.[/quote]

HE doesn’t need a “proper” goodbye but I can appreciate how mom might miss that. [/quote]

How do you know what he needs? Kids do benefit from having closure too, just like adults. [/quote]

At preschool age he’s probably already forgotten. Kids that age are very in the immediate. [/quote]

It's so weird to me when people try to explain how kids they've never met will feel about things. We know our kids, thank you. Mine (3.5 as well) still misses a classmate who left in November. It's not anything we bring up, but every now and then she mentions it. Same with a teacher who left more recently. Nothing that really impacts her significantly, but she definitely remembers people she hasn't seen in months. Hell, she doesn't seen her grandparents for months at a time normally, she still remembers that they exist.[/quote]

I agree. I would never presume to know how another person's kid is going to react -- especially when I've never met the kid!

My 3.5 year old is doing fine, but I know other kids react differently. Nothing wrong with that. [/quote]

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