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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your child anxious or are you projecting your anxiety?

It's hard to stay whether you're acting rationally, OP. A lot of people on Dcum are ridiculously overprotective, with correspondingly skewed views on how risky certain behaviors are.

But some kids really do need supervision. Mine  is a huge elopement risk, for instance. And can play very rough with others because he doesn't process feelings of pain in a neurotypical way.[/quote]

Yeah I think it is really hard to say op without us being there or knowing more. Some kids with ADHD do need more supervision and if you are worried he would truly hurt another kid than it might be warranted, but generally research is showing we are supervising WAY too much and it does our kids a great disservice. Kids truly need unsupervised, unstructured play to learn executive function skills. ADHD Dude (who is a LCSW therapist) talks a lot about this. The Self Driven child (authors have seen a zillion kids) talk about this, the most recent book I read that talked about this was Raising A Kid Who Can (loved this and it talks a lot about ways to figure out whether it is your anxiety, your kids etc., and how to build these skills. Highly recommend! Might be a helpful way to assess if you are overdoing it a little based on your own anxiety)

So, I think you're going to get a lot of responses that it is appropriate but generally I think it is because our line for what we think is best but might not actually be has shifted in ways that hasn't actually been helpful to kids.[/quote]

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