Holding Tight/Letting Go: Raising Healthy Kids in Anxious Times

We can only hold our children close so long. We must let them go slowly, one step at a time, allowing them to build identity and self-esteem, confidence and competence. We must take off the training wheels at some point and let them go, even though we know that they'll fall and skin a knee. But how can we let them go safely in a world filled with fear and danger? Holding Tight/Letting Go is the necessary and natural push-pull dynamic that must play out between every parent and child from bi...