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Our 4 year old loved preschool before the holidays. Now she says she isn't going back

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A month with my parents in Kerala: cousins, mangoes, her ammamma's undivided attention. Since we came home she has been saying, very calmly, that she is not going back to school. No tears, just a statement, as if it has been decided. Before the break she ran in every morning. Preschool restarts in two weeks and I'm not sure how much to talk about it beforehand. Do I build it up, or leave it alone and deal with the first morning when it comes?

4 comments

  • juniper_balcony_7265

    same after every trip to my parents in gujarat. back to normal about a week into school each time. we didn't talk it up much, just mentioned her friends now and then

  • saffron_notebook_3232

    Our son did this at 4 after a long stay at nani's. We walked past the school a couple of times in the last week of the holidays and he bumped into his teacher once. That did more than any talk at home.

  • velvet_paper_1248

    Does she say why, or is it just the holiday ending? Those are different problems. If it's only the holiday, it usually goes once she's back in the routine.

  • sage_sketch_3966

    teachers see this every june. most kids forget they ever said it once they see their friends at the gate. dont worry too much

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