Carina O’Brien
speaker
1,722 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Carina O’Brien’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So if your baby is that age and the daycare goodbye is breaking your heart every morning, it's actually a sign that the attachment between you and
And your child is doing exactly what it's supposed to.
They know who you are.
They want you.
That's the beautiful thing.
Even when it doesn't feel that way at 7 45 a.m.
when you're trying to do drop-off.
And side note, my son is five and a half.
And yes, I still have drop-off challenges at that time.
And last week it cost me a couple of cookies from Woolworths in order to get him to stay and just have a good goodbye.
So
It still happens even at five and a half.
But research also shows that a hundred percent of babies experience some form of separation anxiety.
It's a normal developmental milestone and nothing is wrong.
Also want to touch on something practical that I hear about so often because I think it feeds directly into that feeling of never quite landing anywhere.
It's around part time work.
Cause we also know that it's not always just part time.
You've negotiated three days a week, which you actually feel really good about it.
You're like, right, I've got my mum time and then I've also got my work time.
And then slowly, quietly, those three days and the boundaries start to bleed.
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