The Origins of Abandonment Anxiety
He's in there somewhere, being four years old. The blanket is the original Hide and Seek tool, and everyone loves Hide and Seek, which is surely all about working out abandonment issues. My daughter and her partner took a work vacation to a far away land, and FD and I volunteered to babysit for a several days. That meant I was a single mother for the first time in a long time. FD entertained the three boys by day, when he could, but the life of a family practitioner is defined by paperwork and long nights at the office, figuring out what in the world Medicare wants from him. Our lives have always been this way. Bring it on Affordable Health Care Act. Parenting, of course, is like riding a bike. So the ways I had with my own children carried over, bridged a twenty-five year gap. Prone to giving children as much space and as much intimacy as they oddly indicate they need works best for me, communicates respect and understanding. We had no problems, during these past ten ...