If you look back at my previous post about this child, it's not your typical crying and rough transition that you have described which I think is very normal and common where a child gets upset when you aren't holding them or starts to cry when you leave their side or leave the room. That's not the case with this child. This child also doesn't really cry all the time. She screams and then gets herself hysterical which is the point when the tears start no it is regardless of what is going on. It is constant shouting and screaming. I could manage with what you described Rachael and have done numerous times. This child will not stop for anything. Just stands at the gate screaming. If I change the layout so she can't access the gate to look for mom and dad she just sits or stands and screams somewhere else. She hasn't made any attempt whatsoever to play, or observe and take pleasure in just watching the others while she starts to get used to her new surroundings and can't be comforted with books, toys, whether it be one on one with me, or left alone with no attention. She is to busy screaming. She won't stop when she is held except upon entry in the morning if I walk around with her, but obviously I can't do that and won't anyway because it's counterproductive. Also after nap, which she also screams through in its entirety stood up in her play pen, when I pick her up and carry her downstairs she will have a nibble at snack and a few slurps of her drink but only if I'm holding her, and then she is right back to the screaming. She is stubborn, and angry when she is screaming you can see it in her face. She can't be comforted by being held, sung to, won't even be bribed with food lol

She came late this morning due to lost keys and then I had to run out to school with a forgotten lunch for my daughter :-/ she has been here 20 minutes and she is in a high chair in front of Sesame Street as sometimes this has given us some respite. She is crying, screaming and has snot all over her face. She is intermittently crying when she is interested in something on the box but the starts up again. TV isn't part of my regular daycare routine at all, but you do what you've gotta do. That being said I'm not about to make this a daily thing just to get her to be quiet...that's not teaching her anything. I've had kids in the past with little socialization and they have never been even close to as bad as this child. I think it's a combination of her personality and zero socialization with either other children or adults.