A study comes from Australia that underlines how children who are used to taking risks, competitions and physical games will have less chance of incurring anxiety-related disorders.
The fact is that, normally, it is mainly males who grow up in a competitive and confrontational environment.
The appeal to dads is therefore not to treat their daughters excessively like princesses, rather to push them to face their limits: an overprotective attitude could give rise to symptoms of anxiety, such as the continuous search for reassurance, worries, anger or fear of novelty. Hence social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and separation anxiety.
Taken from the column "Did you know that..." on Nascere Mamma
