Leaving activities

My son loves the slides in play areas. Whenver its time to leave he will have a full on meltdown. What do other parents/carers do to reduce this?

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  • This sounds like my life six years ago!!!

    Have you tried the "in five minutes, in one minute, now" thing? Or "we need to go, how many more slides do you need? ten, OK, I'll count..."

    Having a ritual of how you end your time at an activity might help, like "we do three goes down the slide, then run round the big tree and then go and say goodbye to the ducks" can be good too.

    Explaining why it's time to go and when you'll next be back might work.

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