My son Matthew is 16 months old and some time ago my husband and I were met by a very expected and stressful for every parent emotion - Matty started to safer when we had been leaving home for work...

Even a very professional and loving nanny can't help your kid to get rid of the panic he encounter when seeing his closest people leaving him/her. It's very natural, especially during the period starting from 6 months to a kindergarten age.

I can share my experience from what have worked on my kid.

Firstly in the middle of his first year, when he started to cry when his daddy or mommy were leaving the room, we stayed behind the door for about 10 seconds and were back greeting, praising him and giving him lots of cuddle and kisses. Thus he understood that the parents didn't leave him forever and were always back.

On the first attempts of throwing tantrums (in our case it was about 12 months) we discovered that leaving him with another person (in our case it is a nanny) and