Separation Anxiety: Childcare drop-off

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Article Overview

Independence is an important goal for every child. Positive separation experiences are a crucial part of fostering this independence. Solid separations are special gifts that adults help provide for a child. This article explores goals, guidelines, tools, techniques, and emotional issues involved in parent-child separations at school/daycare drop-off. It also offers anticipatory activities to help process separations beforehand as well as in-the-moment words and techniques to ease the transition at the time of your child’s separation.