The Kid Whisperer: How to make pre-K pickup more functional
Published in Lifestyles
Dear Kid Whisperer,
My 4-year-old was having a good day at preschool, but when I arrived to pick her up, she had a meltdown. After getting her to calm down and talk with me, she walked out fine, but it was only a matter of time -- she had another meltdown.
Then, when I got her in the car, her boot fell off. This began a massive power struggle about me helping with the boot, her (perhaps intentionally) kicking it off again, just taking both boots off, and so on. After her ignoring me, me badgering her, her baiting me to get the boot, and her asking me to stop the car so she could get her boot, it ended with another tantrum. Help!
Answers: Sometimes when reading questions, a red flag is so glaring and scary, I will exclaim, out loud, in my office, with no one else in the room: “YIKES! RED FLAG!”
This was one of those times.
Here’s what did it for me this time. And I quote:
“After getting her to calm down and talk with me...”
NOOOOOOO.
No.
Absolutely not.
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