It’s just occurred to me that of our 3 children the youngest was the most clingy.
He would creep into our bed at any opportunity, hated my husband going away and was bereft when his much older siblings left home for university, he needed to know where we would be and what we would be doing when he was at primary school.
Yet he begged to be allowed to board at school when he was 12, lived abroad bar 9 months since he was 18 and rarely calls.
As little children our first two couldn’t give a stuff! They started school and nursery without a backward glance, wouldn’t even notice when my husband was away and were always happy to stay away without us.
Yet they are always on the phone, my daughter at least once a day, they come home or invite us to stay regularly and seem “ needier than their brother.
Do you think the extra attention and makes for a more independent adult?
All the different family surnames
