Some thing I hate the most these days
That's scaring my little baby off by saying things she is afraid of.
My little girl is growing up.
Over the last few weeks, she has started understanding different emotions and expressing them in her own way. One of those emotions is fear.
As parents, the last thing we want is for her to be afraid of the world around her. But parenting has a funny way of putting you in situations you never imagined. Sometimes she becomes so determined that, in the moment, we end up saying things like, “Billi Mausi is coming,” or “The cockroach will come,” hoping she’ll listen.
She does.
And that’s the part that hurts.
The way she looks at us when she hears those words is enough to make us question ourselves. We know she trusts us, and using that trust to create fear, even for a moment, doesn’t sit right with us.
We don’t want her to grow up being scared of cats, insects, or anything else because of something we casually said during her childhood. We want her to be curious, confident, and brave, not obedient because she’s frightened.
Parenting often feels like choosing between what works today and what is right in the long run. We’re still learning, and this is one of those lessons that has stayed with us.
I just hope we find better ways to guide her, without teaching her to fear the world.
