anxiety at nighttime. As I was tucking him in, he’d get flooded with anxious thoughts, mostly centered on his upcoming birthday.
It was hard for him to fully express, but he told me that something about that transition was scaring him; he thought everything would change after he turned his new age.No matter what I told him — no matter how much I reassured him that he and his life would be just the same, and that age is just a number — he couldn’t shake the fear and anxiety.
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