Saturnin Stefaniuk
Saturnin Stefaniuk voted up Virginia Lou's answer
My daughter started daycare as a very young baby and attended 3 different daycare centers by the age of 5. Now as a teen, she has attachment disorder and panic attacks and social anxiety. Do you think her early childhood could have anything to do with it?

Dear Anonymous,

First of all to just realize that we are all so different, some youngsters will have consistently supporting nurturing infancy and STILL have those conditions you describe, others will undergo lots of early-life traumas and very resilient...

So take care no self-blame for you, and from there if that early understanding can help your daughter, … Read more

Saturnin Stefaniuk
Saturnin Stefaniuk voted up Tom Jackson's answer
My daughter started daycare as a very young baby and attended 3 different daycare centers by the age of 5. Now as a teen, she has attachment disorder and panic attacks and social anxiety. Do you think her early childhood could have anything to do with it?

Are those clinical diagnoses or are you just guessing?

If you know that for sure, then yes, it is most likely that some of her needs were not met in the daycare situation and that could be the remote cause of some of what you are seeing now.  But I'm assuming that you have her under … Read more