Dreading the school or daycare drop-off? How to handle it when your child doesn’t want you to go
- Written by Kylie Ridder, Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Murdoch University

You’re doing daycare or school drop-off, you’re already late for work, and your child’s lip starts to quiver. A tremble turns into a wail, a wail into heart-rending cries as they clutch at your leg.
Eventually, you have to leave and get to work. You spend the rest of the day feeling absolutely...