Overcoming Fear of Letting Go: Allowing Your Child to Take Risks and Grow

2023-07-25 00:05:38

I have always been an anxious person who managed to control myself. I’m also lucky to have a confident husband, which helps me put the real danger in perspective and the one I imagine. We have a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl who I tend to overprotect. My boy received an invitation to sleep at a friend’s cabin. His father agrees, but not me. I’m too afraid that something will happen to him. But the little one insists, and I no longer know how to justify my refusal. Am I too careful?

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Fear is one of the basic human emotions and serves to protect us from danger. But it must also help us to bring regarding change. He would therefore be happy to separate, in yours, what is real from what is too fertile an imagination. Your son needs to socialize and experience a certain detachment from his parents. If you have a reassuring knowledge of his friend’s parents, you should follow your husband’s advice.

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