When you have a child who needs constant reassurance you find yourself attempting to preempt and address their worries before they even appear. I discovered this week that doing so can actually add to their worries and result in the polar opposite of what you were trying achieve. Recently we went on our first holiday as a family; just us and the dog. It went fairly well on the whole, other than the heavens opening for most of the week, and a certain youngest son being a bit too ‘helpful’ when children were in front of him on a slide,