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We have to tell our dd that she isn't returning to her preschool next year and is going to a new one (we don't like her current school, not a good place for her). I think she will be sad, confused. How would you suggest I explain it? She is 4.
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I don't agree. The sooner she gets it through her head the more attached (to the idea of the new school) she'll be.
[ Reply | More ]ITA. 3 months to a four yo is a lifetime. Too much opportunity to build anxiety if you tell her now and spend all summer discussing it. Wait until the night before or next day. Arrange a playdate with someone from the new class over the Summer, just make it a playdate with nothing else attached. Night before first day you can tell her that nice girl jane, or whomever will be in the class.
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It won't be as big of a deal to her as it is to you, that's for sure. You tell her (about a week before school starts) very casually that she is going to a different school this year. No big deal. If she asks what about "sally", you say, I don't know what Sally's mommy is going to do, I'll ask next time I see them. It really really really is no big deal.
[ Reply | More ]OP: Interesting. Thanks for the responses. The school is part of an ongoing so I can't really use the "big girl" excuse. The school we are leaving thought we should tell her so she has "closure" before the end of the year (next week) but I feel like it will upset her. She knows people who go to the new school (though not in the same grade) so I don't think the transition will be too bad. Maybe it is best to wait until later. I don't particularly trust how the school we are leaving would handle it, to be honest.
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