Dear Barbara: It’s So Hard for Me to Leave My Children!
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One of my favorite quotes about moms explains the reason for your it’s-so-hard-to-leave-them fear, worry, and anxiety. Author Jean Fleming wrote, “Every child is a piece of a mother’s heart walking around outside her body.”* Babies and little ones so recently severed from your body are especially hard to leave. Their existence literally depends on you, dear mom. Every time I left my children at that age I felt an almost physical pain of angst. When they get older the emotion changed to more worry about their well-being; will dad or the sitter feed them well, keep their bedtimes, and pay attention to their needs like I do.
Dear Barbara: It’s So Hard for Me to Leave My Children!
Dear Barbara: It’s So Hard for Me to Leave My…
Dear Barbara: It’s So Hard for Me to Leave My Children!
One of my favorite quotes about moms explains the reason for your it’s-so-hard-to-leave-them fear, worry, and anxiety. Author Jean Fleming wrote, “Every child is a piece of a mother’s heart walking around outside her body.”* Babies and little ones so recently severed from your body are especially hard to leave. Their existence literally depends on you, dear mom. Every time I left my children at that age I felt an almost physical pain of angst. When they get older the emotion changed to more worry about their well-being; will dad or the sitter feed them well, keep their bedtimes, and pay attention to their needs like I do.