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For th Chicks out there!! 20-Sep-2013 At 11:11:08 PM DaCrux

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On 19/09/2013 martym wrote:
>My daughter has become very clingy with her mum; to the point that she
>screams when mum goes away (she's 16 months old)
>This means that when we go climbing, my wife can't climb while our daughter
>watches - otherwise the screaming starts.
>The other day, mum was helping a friend flake the rope - no harness on,
>no semblance that she was going to climb anything - and our daughter rushed
>over and dragged her away from the ropes.
>
>I would say this is effecting her climbing... Any solutions?
>(This is a new thing, she used to love watching mum up high)
It's called separation anxiety and it's a normal part of child development :)
Here's some info http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/separation_anxiety.html
Get your daughter to help flake the rope :) she will learn more from that experience than you can imagine :)