Last week Meghan screamed for about 2 minutes when Miss Catherine took her and I closed the door. But then she held her hand and eventually danced by herself.
This week Meghan screamed harder and tried to crawl to the door as I was closing it, like from some movie where the monster has her by her leg and she just can't get to safety quick enough. Broke my heart!
But, then in less than 1 minute, she was fine, sitting next to her teacher, not on her, and did the whole class without a problem.
We decided to try this with mini movers the next day with different teachers. She has been especially clingy with that class. So I brought her in, dropped off to the teachers and they grabbed her while she lunged for my leg and she screamed while I walked out of the gym. By the time the door shut, Meghan was participating in the stretching that she would never do with me there. She did everything, had a great time, and was even sweaty. Miss Candy told me that I am now banned from her gym! Out of sight out of mind!
And then there's library....
I don't want to push my luck and try to force her to do too many big girl things at one time, but I have been the only mom sitting in the story hour with the kids and the kind of intimidating, a little scary, abrasive, majorly tatooed, etc. Children's librarian has told me that their class is not supposed to have parents with them. Unfortunately all other classes are full, so I can't switch it. So, today we sat outside of the room, picked out books, asked if she wanted to go have fun with the class (to which she said no) and left.
I don't really know what to do, but I don't want to force her to do something that she really doesn't want to and I can't just leave her and let her cry for a minute because they won't let us do that either.
Am I wrong to let Meghan decide if she wants to do it or not?
I'm really proud of her for doing the dance and movers classes and she's been sleeping in her own bed. I don't want to give her too much stress all at one time.
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