This long separation sometimes shows itself in queer ways. For example, at times you may get almost no greeting at all, as if your child had hardly missed you. You may have trouble getting your youngster to leave friends and to set out for home, as if home wasn't important. At other times you may find that you have acquired a clinging, demanding, even whiny kind of child who can't get enough of you. And sometimes, when you join your child, your reward is a long tale of all the things that have gone wrong.
Many children have difficulty leaving their parents the first few days.
The staff usually can help a child feel safe and at ease in a short time, but you may be greeted by a tale of unhappiness. And, quite apart from the struggle of adjusting to a group, all youngsters have their moments of trouble. They have arguments with their friends. Now and again they fall or in one way or another hurt themselves. Or they resist doing something that has to be done and they fuss when their teacher insists.