Navigating Parental Fears & Milestones with Laura Amies

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Oh my God, you were always understanding, but now you will understand-

Yeah

... every-

Oh my gosh

... aspect of parental anxiety and child anxiety in a way that-

Yeah

...

I don't think many people could.

And I was gonna say, there's something that I found, obviously, like, I, I was a teacher before I was a therapist, and I was a teacher, and, uh, before I was a mom, and it made me feel like I would obviously find all of this so simple.

Mm.

You know, like, oh, it's so simple.

You know, I, I've worked, I've had th- 30 children.

I've run an assembly with 100 children.

Like, one child, what are, what are ...

This is gonna be so easy.

There's a, there's a massive shift from becoming a sort of an expert or a helper to someone else's family and having your own.

What did you notice for you?

Yeah.

Um, I think I'm very lucky that I was a nanny, because my jump from being a nursery nurse to a nanny was an absolute shock to the system.

Because suddenly being in a home on your own, fully responsible for a baby, is ...

I mean, you can be riddled with anxiety even over the most basic things, can't you? Um, so I feel very, very lucky that I had that practice, dare I say.

It was very, you know, I was very professional, and-

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