a major meltdown

Sophie was doing her best to dawdle this morning and it was getting close to bell time when I told her that we MUST get in the car. She complained about me rushing her on the entire trip to school. By the time we got there she had worked herself into a tizzy. She had a complete meltdown in the cloakroom with tears, sobbing, the whole thing. "Don't leave me, I'm so scared...." and so on. Ugh.

After 3 hugs and having her teacher physically pull her off me I left. I was frazzled when I got to work but needed to be present for a meeting. I called her principal a bit later on and spoke to him about her behavior and if he had any strategies for dealing with it. It doesn't occur that often, but when it does it rattles everyone. He has seen behavior like Sophie's before and suggested that I have a talk with her about her job is to go to Kindergarten and my job is to go to work. I'm to leave her at the door of the Kindergarten and not go inside even when Sophie begs me to. It might be hard at first but likely better in the long run. He did say that he has heard some experts speak to the fact that kids who are very attached to the parents often avoid "attachments with undesirables" when they are 13 or 14. So, what is annoying and disruptive behavior now, will hopefully serve us in good stead when she is older. I know I was that way as a kid, too, so she comes by it naturally.

Tonight, Sophie and I are going to try out one of her mitten ornaments that came from Oriental Trading. We are going to do these with her class next week, so a test run tonight is in order.

I'm almost ready for bed. Don't know if I'll keep my eyes open since I've been up since 5:45am to hit the early morning fitness class. I love getting my work out over and done with so I don't have to worry about it later on.