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Podcast: Raised Resilient: Help Your Highly Sensitive Child
Episode: When Your Child “Only Wants Mommy!”: Navigating Parental Preference with Confidence
Description: Parental preference is really challenging; it’s so hard when your child only wants mommy or only wants daddy. Either you can’t get a break because your child seems to need you constantly, or you feel rejected because your child seems to want nothing to do with you.
In this week’s episode, I answer a listener who asks: Why does my toddler only want Mommy? And how should we respond? I dive into why kids go through phases of preferring only one parent, what it means (hint: it’s not what you might think!), a...