"I have two daughters, 1 year and 3 years old, whom I have looked after for a month, their father being a general practitioner," says Lucie. I find that both have changed a lot in a short time. Is it because of the confinement and spending more time with them? Or because they just grow up? ”
A certain number of testimonies as well as the reflections of Marie Danet, clinical psychologist and doctor in psychology, dispel Lucie's doubts: this period seems very conducive to the acquisition of a taste for independence, for certain children. “It is for them a way of keeping control of the situation according to their level of emotional security. The “secure” children will be more organized and will have initiatives, when others will feel overwhelmed and a little abandoned by the lack of availability of the parents, ” explains this specialist in the theory of attachment.
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