six weeks in. every saturday the same. tears from our building gate to the hall, 'i don't want to go'. then 45 minutes of grinning and she's the last one off the mat. do we keep going? not sure who the crying is for
Our daughter does this with dance. What I've noticed is that it's the transition she hates, not the class: being taken away from whatever she was doing at home. Once we started telling her 15 minutes before and letting her finish what she was playing with, the car crying got shorter. It hasn't stopped.
My son was like this at that age, every single class. It stopped on its own around the time he made one friend there. Is there another child she knows in the batch?
she plays with lego before we leave. we pull her off it mid-build. that might be it. no friend in the batch, she's the only one from her school
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the mid-build thing. my son at that age would cry over anything left half-finished, didn't matter what came next
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If she's happy once she's there, I would keep going for now. We stopped a class once because of the car tears, and our son told us a year later that he had liked it. At six it's hard to know which signal to trust.
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try leaving the lego half-built on purpose and promising it'll be there when she's back. worked for one of mine, not the other 🤷
Swimming did this to us for most of a term, at about that age. She still swims now, far more than we ever expected. I don't think the crying was a verdict on the class. It was about leaving the house. If the grin at the end is consistent, that's the part I'd listen to.
Keep going
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