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Trauma makes you feel like the world is more dangerous than it actually is. That's called hypervigilance.

Many post-traumatic parents struggle to trust their gut and default to overprotection.

Gentle parenting can become helicopter parenting when we fear our kid's emotional distress.

We're told that parents who hover too much, who monitor and get overinvolved with their children's lives are setting them up for failure. A recent study from McGill University found that children of parents who were overprotective are less able to adjust to typical university stressors, experience more anxiety , and demonstrate less resilience overall.

Are you helicoptering, or just plain scared? How to tell the difference, and what to do about it. Source: watcartoon/123RF

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