Chatty at home but not at nursery
Is anyone else experiencing this? My LG is super chatty at home, babbles all day and says a few clear words but when I said this to her nursery key workers they were surprised! And said she is quite quiet there which makes me so sad.
She’s there full time and LOVES it, goes in happy and comes out happy but I feel guilty now that maybe it’s not the right place for her if she is so quiet there 😩😭
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My LG is exactly the same. She will chatter away all day at home and can say quite a few words but at nursery she wouldn't say anything. Until a couple of weeks ago! Now she is saying the occasional thing there, and even said 2 words together yesterday 'car, go!' as she pushed it down the ramp so I think that she is getting over it. I think that it will just take time.
I wouldn't worry 😊 just monitor it. My little one is really chatty at home but not anywhere else.. Even at my parents she's a lot quieter and she loves it there! But if my parents are at our house she's really chatty haha. I wonder if they just get so used to talking to us and we engage with them 1 on 1 where as that's not the same at nursery.
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Yep! And the same with walking. Apparently at nursery he just sits and watches other children. I was there for an hour yesterday doing "festive crafts" (he did none) and saw it firsthand for myself. I felt so sad I almost cried. He has been there since he was 3 months old and it has always been this way (didn't know he could sit because he would lie there etc.). The nursery staff genuinely don't know what he can and can't do through no fault of their own - he is choosing not to/lacks the confidence without his Mummy or Papa. I feel like a failure as a parent. I try to remember that I was extremely shy myself as a child and that perhaps he is similar by nature, preferring to sit with a book or jigsaw. There are no other nurseries with vacancies in the area so if I take him out then I will have to quit my job :( And I don't know if he will then suffer from a lack of socialisation. It's so hard.