Being over-protective.....

[Fig]

Gigi - sorry I think I may have offended you. I wasn't trying to say protective mothering is a bad thing, just that sometimes the anxiety level surronding those protective behaviours can be overwhelming.

I can only give an example of my situation. My 3.5 year old still comes into our bed half way through the night. Prior to looking into my issues I would lie awake at night while she was in her bed worrying about 'what if someone broke into the house', 'what if there was a fire', what if..... I wouldn't be able to sleep until she came into our bed. Some would say yes these are things that could potentially happen, but even after I had taken all possible precautions I would still lie there really worrying about the what ifs. So for me your examples of the holes in the road, I would worry even after I had taken steps to prevent it. I hope that makes sense.

[Gigi]

Fig, it's all good, i wasn't offended at all. Each of us has our own journey i/e really hard to generalise in a thread, cos each of our situations is so unique to us.