Let your children grow - don't be overprotective

Today is Children's Day. ACE tip-toed into the study this morning and gave me a welcome home hug before I left for work. At that time, I was penning him a Happy Children's Day note.

I read this somewhere: The need to be loved, to feel important can very often, even when we are not aware of it, have a profound influence on our dealings with others. For example, if we wish to feel important, we may seek to lord it over others, to dominate them.

Very often when mothers and fathers are overprotective of their children, on the grounds that they wish no harm to come to them, they may well be subconsciously transferring their own need to have their children dependent upon them. They do not want their children to grow up.