LibraryScenariosHow to Respond When Your Child Expresses Romantic Attachment
Scenario

How to Respond When Your Child Expresses Romantic Attachment

My five-year-old keeps asking if he can marry me when he grows up and my mother-in-law laughs but it makes me deeply uncomfortable.

Rabia
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent navigates the delicate boundary between normal developmental attachment and the need to establish appropriate relationship models.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Early childhood 3-6 — play language boundaries?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.