I have a 3 year old dcg that started a week ago. She has adjusted really well, only cried at drop off on the first day then after that has been totally happy from the moment she walks in the door - playing, laughing, smiling, chatty. Then as soon as I say it is time to get ready for quiet time she starts crying and calling for her mommy because she doesn't want to do it. She follows me around while I'm trying to get everyone settled and cries the whole time. Then I put her in her own bed and she starts screaming even louder and calling for her mama.

I decided today to give as little attention to her as possible and see if it helped, which it did. She still cried as she followed me around, but it wasn't as much when she could see I wasn't going to coddle her. She also only cried for about five minutes when I put her to bed, as apposed to the 40 minutes of screaming she did last week. She always ends up falling asleep.

So, I guess I will continue this way and am sure there will be even more improvement. But I was just wondering if anyone else has gone through this same thing and how long it took before they finally got ever it. I don't have a lot of patience for this kind of behaviour, my own 3 year old daughter gets sent to her room when she starts crying when she doesn't get her way.