A 3-year-old begins crying and clinging to their parent at drop off every morning for a week. The parent looks tired and overwhelmed and says, "He's just being dramatic."

• What signs of stress do you see in the child? In the parent?

• What might be happening under the surface?

Write your response in 2–3 sentences.

• The stress i see in the parents are that they are tired but they say hes just clingy from dropping off the child as it looks like it happens often when dropping off the child to the daycare.

• What might happen under the surface? Maybe because the child is clingy because and cries for the parents as they dont have enough time to be with the child when they are home or they dont make enough time to be with the child when the parents are home but also has other responsibilities to make ends meet and have time to be there for the child when needed.

• Maybe the child had a lack of sleep during the night, if the child goes to sleep early and get up on time for the morning so the child wont be dramatic when the child is being dropped off.

What might be happening under the surface?

• maybe the parents are busy during evening and the child is not tired until midnight or the child avoid to sleep if they didn’t get a fresh air before sleep time.

• I see the child is stressing because he wants to spend more time with the parent than at a childcare centre

• The parent is stressing about the child because he’s been so clingy when being dropped off every morning that she is overwhelmingly saying that the child is just being dramatic.

What might be happening under the surface?

• The child wants to spend more time with the parent but the parent must be so busy with work, or having to catch up on chores, cook for family and clean up. And by the time it’s bed time, the parent is finally not busy.

• i see the child doesn’t want to be left at the daycare because he/she doesn’t know anyone. The parent is stress because the child is crying not wanted to stay at daycare and doesn’t know anyone.

What might be happening under the surface?

• they want to be around the people he/she knows like family members since they known them since birth.

• They are use to being around family that at a daycare is unfamiliar for them.