What can I say, he hates loves change.
After his first day of daycare my two year old was eager to tell me about his day. They played outside! He ate crackers! He took a nap! He wore a hat! When I asked him, though, whether he wanted to go back, he scowled and said no. I changed the subject back to all the things he had done and he once again started smiling and babbling away.
This morning I took him back to his old childcare place, as I had planned to gradually ease him into this change. When we turned the wrong direction onto the road that leads to one or the other, he got very upset, insisted that he did not want to go back to the old place, he only wanted to go to the new.
He’s clearly quite pleased with the new place and ready to go back and I just don’t know what to make of it. My boy is not someone who deals well with change. The first time I ever took him out of a diaper to let him walk around naked from the waist down (and hopefully encourage him toward checking out the toilet), he just could not handle it. He would not move until I put his diaper back on. He was used to wearing his diaper, that’s how things were supposed to be, and that’s how he wanted them. The more I gently suggested that it was okay for him to be naked, the more upset he got. And this is how he is about every single thing. I know that part of it is just being two, I recall his brother being pretty committed to his routines at that age as well, but I think part of it is just the type of kid he is. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with it, I’m just surprised at how well he seems to be handing this pretty major change of his daily life.