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Readers Share Their Biggest Parenting Fears
I’ve got a lot of parenting fears, and sure, some are irrational.
But for every irrational fear, there are at least dozen really serious ones.
I put a call out for your biggest parenting fears and just as I suspected, y’all are busy tossing and turning about some pretty heavy stuff.
Readers share their biggest parenting fears – can you relate?
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Jenn commented on Oct 18 11 at 12:09 pmThat I will die. I was never scared of death before I had my little girl. What if I go, leave her here without me to protect her, and miss all the magical moments we will have in the future. I would never forgive myself if I died on her!
Symantha commented on Oct 19 11 at 1:46 amThat I will die at a young age as my mother did and therefore she never got to meet my daughter.
Suicide is the other. My uncle committed suicide in 2000 and aside from my mothers death that was the hardest thing I have ever had to go through in my whole life.
That my daughter will have to bury me at such a young age or that I will have to bury my daughter.
I was 22 when my uncle died and 30 when my mom died.
Watching my grandmother bury 2 children (3 really-1 just after I was born in ’79 to a 18 wheeler accident) & my grandpa (her husband).
Taz commented on Oct 21 11 at 3:39 pmthat i will repeat cycles that my family has had for generations- specifically food and eating issues. that is a big one for me. i don’t know how to control what the grandparents say or do and i’m afraid that watching how i eat and diet will mess with my daughter.
Sweetpea commented on Oct 21 11 at 11:34 pmI live in constant fear that I am a bad mother. this fear is constantly reinterated by my angry exhusband.
Melissa commented on Oct 25 11 at 11:28 amI am constantly in fear that my child will die. It actually pains me to type this, as if by doing so it will somehow make it come true. In a string of tragedies, I lost a child to miscarriage, my husband died, my twin daughters were born then died shortly after, then my grandfather and my brother died… now it’s just me and my son. There’s been so much loss and death, and so much of it has been sudden and unexpected, that every cough and sniffle elicits a terror-reaction in me (Of course I don’t let on to my child, he’s only three, and my neurosis is not one he need know about, lest share). But yeah… that’s my biggest fear. My second being that I will die. Given that I have a seizure disorder, and no other adults around to make sure I don’t choke while seizing or hit my head on the way down, it’s not out of the realm of possibility. *sigh*
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