Archive of On the Go Answers from the Ultimate Mother-Daughter Duo

Category: healthy attachment

How Close is Too Close? Does My Daughter Need More Space?

Are you and your daughter too close? Do you worry that perhaps she’s not independent enough? She calls you her best friend. She still wants to sit in your lap, and often tries to fall asleep in your bed with you. She depends on you, and when you look around — you see that most […]

How to Give Your Daughter Space and Stay Connected (at the same time)

It’s a paradox. How do we stay connected with our teen daughter, and yet give her space? She blows hot and cold. One moment we’re the dorkiest, weirdest mom on the earth and she’s shying away from us at the grocery store (What? A good dancing song came on!). Later that night she wants to […]

Chill, You’re Not a Helicopter Mom

Have you ever been told to ‘let your daughter go’? To ‘stop hovering,’ or to ‘let her be more independent’? Then perhaps you’ve been accused of being a helicopter mom. It’s a loaded term that launched a media frenzy a few years ago: a mom who is overinvolved in her daughter’s life, thereby inhibiting her […]