Having an Anxious Child

My youngest daughter has always been somewhat of an introvert in a primarily extrovert family. Most of her childhood I’ve spent trying to get her to join the crowd or become involved in a sport or take dance or order her own food at a restaurant. It’s been difficult since she was a baby getting her to enjoy her day at daycare or preschool and now school. She is now 8 and what started out to seem normal for a young child to be a bit clingy or have a degree of separation anxiety has now turned into more of an issue that actually seems to affect her happiness. While she is generally a very...