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When intensive parenting creates anxiety instead of security

My seven year old still needs me to help him with everything and gets anxious when I am not there and I worry that my close parenting has made him insecure instead of confident

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The protection and support you provided may have inadvertently communicated that the world is too dangerous for your child to navigate alone

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