How to Warm Up a Four-Year-Old

The best thing to do is moderately and without too much of a thing about it, help let him know what's going to come. You could say, here's our schedule for the day. And then when you get there, if he says, you have to stay with me, you can just letting him know what you're willing to do. It's totally reasonable for a four-year-old to want a little bit of extra time warming up to a situation.