They can be very responsive & that's a common one. Which is why the daycare providers mention it.
I tend to think the situation builds because of a cycle within it, a cycle of resistance that triggers the child's counter-resistance or basically reinforces the child's clinging. (I know my response was to resist the clinging in some way, even when I was technically "accepting" or allowing it, because I had a negative response and "defending against" it by pushing/pressuring them NOT to be that way, or even just wishing it would stop, tends to reinforce it.)
There is a saying, "What you resist, persists." Also what you focus on, you get more of (and wanting something to stop, or not to be happening, or dreading it/worrying that it will happen at the next drop-off, are attention focused on the unwanted thing.)
I think this is the real reason these cycles happen, & yes it's about acute sensitivity to subtle things.
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