{"id":4163,"date":"2014-04-30T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2014-09-15T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T23:13:55","slug":"mommy-always-comes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/mommy-always-comes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy Always Comes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"DSC02244<\/a>One of the hardest parts of babies getting bigger and coming into toddlerhood is the unavoidable separation anxiety<\/a> that indicates a secure attachment<\/a>.\u00a0 While my kids have had varying levels of anxiety through their little lives, the girls still struggling with me being away at times, the one thing I\u2019ve always tried to instill in them is the simplest idea: Mommy always comes back.<\/p>\n

No matter where I am going or how long I am going to be away, I want my children to know and rest assured that I will eventually come back.\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 I love my children immensely and want to be with them every second I can and will always do anything and everything in my power to return to them as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

I want them to know I am always thinking of them and miss them as much as they miss me.\u00a0 Even this past weekend when hubby and I were in Atlanta <\/a>for 5 full days, I talked to the girls twice a day, every day.<\/p>\n

Honeybun has a good grasp of the concept of death <\/a>and Sugarplum is starting to.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had numerous conversations starting with the worry \u201cMommy, I don\u2019t want you to die\u201d but never has it arisen due to my absence.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they yet relate me going away to something bad possibly happening and I want to keep it that way.\u00a0 I want them to whole-heartedly believe that I will indeed always come back.<\/p>\n

Whenever they get sad about me having to go, I tell them \u201cMommy always comes back\u201d and ask them \u201cHas mommy ever not come back before?\u201d\u00a0 and when they say \u201cno\u201d I reassure them \u201csee, nothing to worry about.\u00a0 Mommy always comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the hardest parts of babies getting bigger and coming into toddlerhood is the unavoidable separation anxiety that indicates a secure attachment.\u00a0 While my kids have had varying levels of anxiety through their little lives, the girls still struggling with me being away at times, the one thing I\u2019ve always tried to instill in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,9,5,17],"tags":[160,206],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monthly-milestones","category-family-life","category-mommy-time","category-work-it-out","tag-attachment","tag-separation-anxiety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}