Separation anxiety, need help!

Tigger & pooh

My youngest son turned 4 at the end of sept. at the beginning of sept. he started a new preschool on tues and thurs from 912. Every preschool day he crys and says he doesn't want to go. Up until today I have been very consistent. I tell him it's ok to be scared but he is safe there and always has fun. I then have to drag him screaming and crying to the room have the teacher pry him off me and walk away. I have done this for months now and it is only getting worse. I am told after I leave he does settle down. The problem now is I just can't handle it emotionally anymore. I broke today and told him if he didn't go into the classroom and we went home he would have to stay in his room just like when he is sick. He immediately stopped crying and said ok. I took him home. I just don't have the fight in me anymore. I am thinking about taking him out of preschool completely. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Anything else you would do? I want to add he was also in preschool last year and he would cry but it wasnt this bad until closer too the end of the year.

Tigger & pooh

You are not overstepping at all. We only told the boys last week that Ella had been sick and died so I don't think it has a lot to do with the separation issues but I had been super sick the whole pregnancy so maybe I didn't give him the attention he needs.

ByeBabyBunting

Does he have a favorite stuffed animal that he can take with him for security? And I know not everyone feels the same, but I intend to bribe my kids as much as necessary - maybe you could give him stickers or something if he is brave and stays the day? And at the end of the week when he has 5 stickers he gets a toy? 

Tigger & pooh

We have tried sending his blankie with him and today I had reese peanut butter cups for him if he would just go into the room. Neither work.