Sam stayed in the nursery!!!!!! Now, for those of you who know our little guy well he and the church nursery have not been a good mix. He has really struggled to be comfortable in that setting with one of us present let alone stay there by himself. He really is a sensitive little man.
Every week it has been a struggle to pull myself out of bed on Sunday to go to church only to sit in the nursery with a little boy who would not even let me leave for a minute without major hysteria and anxiety. Not that I don't want to go to church or I don't think it is important....it has simply been incredibly discouraging. However, every week we have gone to try to keep things consistent for him.
The church nursery we go to is wonderful and has a very loving and gradual protocol for kids like Sam who are not the kids who cry for a few minutes and then settle in. They have worked with him and us to really try to make him comfortable and today for some reason or another it worked. Maybe it was the dad volunteer in the room who got him playing cars, maybe it was a growing sense of security there, maybe the kid dynamics were just right....who knows...and really, I don't care...all I know is it is possible and it gives me a little hope that he wont be holding my hand in Sunday School when he is 13.
So we will try again next week...and even if it doesn't go as smoothly we have this little glimmer of satisfaction knowing that it is possible. Yay Sam!
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