I would not recommend this.
But I look at parents every day who helicopter around their kids and I wonder why.
Let them get dirty. And then teach them how to clean their own clothes instead of cleaning up after them all the time.
Tackle your own anxieties and fears when they walk or cycle outside. Yes, it'll be more work for you if they get hurt. But that's just life. We can't enclose everyone at home for fear of injury.
Our job as parents is not to police our kids or be their cleaners. Be available for them but don't let them become dependent on you - for their material or their emotional needs.
(Doesn't apply to reasonable precautions and self isolation to prevent Covid, obviously).
But I look at parents every day who helicopter around their kids and I wonder why.
Let them get dirty. And then teach them how to clean their own clothes instead of cleaning up after them all the time.
Tackle your own anxieties and fears when they walk or cycle outside. Yes, it'll be more work for you if they get hurt. But that's just life. We can't enclose everyone at home for fear of injury.
Our job as parents is not to police our kids or be their cleaners. Be available for them but don't let them become dependent on you - for their material or their emotional needs.
(Doesn't apply to reasonable precautions and self isolation to prevent Covid, obviously).