Hello everyone and welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline, the place to learn about all things parenting and get your questions answered. I'm your host, Erin Royer. Now I plan to answer two questions today, but the first question has three really important areas to cover and I want to have time to get to each of those areas.

Also, because it's so hot right now, I'm going to take a few moments at the end to give my thoughts and commentary about what's going on in the news about the college entrance scandal.

Now obviously those are good intentions in parenting gone wrong.

Very, very wrong.

If you haven't heard about it, I'll give a little background, but probably most of you've

heard it.

It's been quite the buzz in my news feed lately.

So, but let's get to the question first.

This week's question is about how and when to leave a toddler at daycare or preschool to make it the easiest transition as possible.

And this question is from Matt, who says,

Hello, Aaron, my wife and I love your podcast. Thank you so much.

The question today is about transitioning to daycare.

Our little one started daycare when he was around nine months old and was there

for about four months until we decided to withdraw him from daycare. It was not a good experience. He never

fully adapted and he had three different teachers in that period of time. Plus he was sick all the time.

He cried every time we left him there and every time we saw on the camera. He was playing by himself

all alone and not participating in any on the camera, he was playing by himself all alone

and not participating in any of the activities or interacting with other kids who were mostly a year

older than him. Still, he does not like going to hang out with kids around his same age, though

he loves hanging out with older kids and adults. We think that it's important for him to develop

social skills with peers, and we would like him to attend a daycare for three days a week at least.

But we don't know how to do it.

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