This is definitely my second post of the night but I have just had so much on my mind lately. Not sure if it is because I’m out of school or what but I just need to write.

Alrighty people. (If anyone is actually reading this.) I sometimes get in my head about all the bad things that could happen to my baby. I see posts or news articles or things on TV that freak me out. Even little things like walking up and down the stairs.

I feel like I need to protect her from every single thing sometimes but I know deep down that wouldn’t be good because she will never know how to cope with the real world once she begins to live on her own.

How do you find that balance?

I would honestly not know what to do with myself if anything were to happen to her. I’m not sure if things that I think about are irrational or normal.

How do you get out of worst case scenario?

There are so many bad people and bad things in the world. I know she will hear or see things that I don’t want her to but I guess I just need to teach her how to handle things that are bad and tempting or show her how those choices would effect her life.

You want your child to become this perfect little person and you may think they already are but are you really setting them up for success when you do that. That is a whole lot of pressure. She is going to make mistakes and my job is to make them teachable moments. Wanting and creating a picture perfect world for them is not realistic I guess.

I need some advice. Anyone else struggle with this?