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When children absorb parental time anxiety

I realized I've been saying 'we're late' to my children almost every day for months and now my 5-year-old says it too and looks stressed when she says it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent's chronic lateness anxiety has become the family's emotional weather, teaching the child that peace and punctuality cannot coexist.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”

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