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A Brighter Rainbow Learning Center has been Greater Boston’s leading daycare and preschool for over 10 years, and they know best that transitioning from home care to professional child care can be difficult for toddlers. Toddler separation anxiety is an extraordinarily common part of child development that typically appears in children between the ages of 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 years. The condition stems from toddlers realizing that they are independent from their parents/more familiar caretakers, and continuing to crave their constant presence and support. Separation anxiety will often come to the forefront when a toddler first starts daycare, as it is the first experience the child has with being left somewhere new without mom, dad, or a nanny.

Below are a few tips to help decrease a child’s separation anxiety outbursts, and increase their feeling of comfort:

  • Increase communication: By talking clearly to your child about daycare, including what it's like and what to expect from A Brighter Rainbow Learning Center, as well as your plans to leave him or her while you're at work, you create reassurance. In turn, this information will prevent an anxiety attack. Be sure to save time to answer his or her questions!
  • Separate slowly: Try to ease into situations where your toddler will be separated from you. By arriving at daycare a few minutes early, he or she will ease into playing with other children before saying goodbye to you. That way, you increase the child’s acclamation to the new situation, which will also make an anxiety attack less likely.
  • Stay active: By keeping your toddler engaged in activities, he or she is less likely (and less able) to focus heavily on the forthcoming separation, decreasing overall anxiety by removing the opportunity to dwell on it.

For more information on combating separation anxiety, early childhood education, and fall enrollment availability, visit A Brighter Rainbow Learning Center online and call (978) 670-9222.

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