"My two year old daughter is dealing with a pretty rough bout of stranger anxiety. So when we were at my aunt's house, she clung to me like a little Koala bear. I kept telling her to go and play, and if she gets scared she can come back, but I was trying to encourage her to at least try."
"....Then someone rang the doorbell, causing the dog to bark, and my daughter came running back in tears. Of course, I had literally told her to come back to me when she got scared, so I held her for a few minutes before she felt calm enough to play again. My older cousin, who has no kids but has three dogs (and constantly equates pet parenthood with actual parenthood),"
A parent struggled on Christmas Eve while a two-year-old daughter experienced severe stranger anxiety. At an aunt's house, the child clung to the parent until coaxed to play with a cousin's daughter about five feet away. A doorbell rang, the dog barked, and the child returned in tears. The parent comforted the child until calm and encouraged resumed play. An older cousin without children lectured that comforting the child would prevent independence and equated pet parenthood with actual parenting. The parent concealed anger, smiled, and later placed the cousin's coat under the diaper-changing pad.
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