Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Why are you crying, Mommy will be back There's a kindergartener that crys every morning whenever the student's mother drops them off. After about 10 minutes the student stops crying and is fine, but this does get annoying when this happens every morning. Is this something where the student is just young and needs to grow up a little or is this something where I need to have a meeting with the parents about? When asked, all the student says is that they miss mommy. Obviously the mother can't sit by the student's side all the time. What should be done? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I teach pre-k and see this quite a lot at the beginning of the year. One thing that helps is a visual schedule for the children to see and manipulate so they understand what they have left until the end of the day and they can see their mom again. I did have one child at the beginning of this year who had never been away from his mom and had to be carried down the hall to my class each day. I gave the hall monitors a set of stickers to show him as soon as they got him out of the car. If he walked down the hallway without screaming and pitching a fit, he earned the sticker. It took a couple weeks for it to work but he really wanted that sticker so it finally worked and he was motivated by it. Any little incentive like the sticker that the child is motivated by can work.