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Child Behavior (Expert Forum)
uncontrollable crying
Answered by
Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D. - Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Crisis Intervention
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
This forum is for questions and support regarding child behavior issues such: Child Discipline (behavior management), Normal Child Development, Parent-Child Communications, Social Development
uncontrollable crying
by jkhaley, Feb 25, 2003 12:00AM
I have a small in home day care and one of the children in my care poses a big problem. She has been coming to my home for about 4 months now and she should already be used to the routine but everyday she cries uncontrollably for no apparent reason. Nothing calms her down. Most of the time she cries for daddy. It got better for a little while , but it has gotten worse again. It has gotten to the point that the other children don't want to play with her because she cries all of the time. She doesn't even want her mother-She tells her mom to go away, I want to play with my daddy. and she even has a fit if her dad leaves the room to go to the bathroom or get a snack. I don't know what to do. I am almost ready to ask her parents to take her somewhere else. Help!! any suggestions
Doctor's Answer
by Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D., Feb 25, 2003 12:00AM
, Feb 25, 2003 12:00AM
If it can be arranged, it would be useful for a while for the father not to participate in the dropping off of the child (picking up would be OK), and in general for him not to be in the day care space. As you know from having done the kind of work you do, most children with such separation anxiety adapt after a while. A few do not, and are not quite ready to be away from parents. It would be best to try to stick it out, though, because soon she'll be of kidergarten age and will need to be away from her folks.
