I do home daycare and I have a baby who cry's every time I leave the room.?

I thought after the first week it would stop, most kids cry like that the first week because they don't know the place. But its going on 3 weeks and he still does it. How can I get him to stop? I do this all on my own so there are times I need to use the restroom or go to the kitchen and when I go he will cry. And its a Screaming type of cry. I just don't know what to do about it and its really starting to stress me out. Any ideas?

Answers:
Kids don't stop crying under these circumstances because they get used to things. Kids are absolutely miserable away from their mothers - they evolved to actually be terrified by her abscence. What stops kids from crying typically is that they give up, they learn that crying doesn't work. They are silent, but in despair, and all the grownups think that the silence is golden!

This poor kid is the type who doesn't give up - he still believes his crying will work and someone will notice and care about his agony. His mother is the only person who can help him and apparently she isn't interested in doing so - she has to end the abuse of leaving him in day care and actually parent him.

Just go to the restroom and he'll cry. Go to the kitchen and he'll cry. Until he accepts the fact that his life sucks and the grownups in his life who are supposed to love him and put him first have abandoned him to you, he will let everyone know how he feels about it.

What a sad and wretched life for such a little child.

You can just leave him alone until he stops, or he might just be afraid to be left alone.

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