Joanna Fortune: My twin daughters are very attached to me 

A sensitive child requires sensitive parenting

"My five-year-old twin daughters are highly sensitive, one especially so, and the other has always had big separation anxiety where I'm concerned and still has phases where she has bowel accidents, especially when she is worried."

Joanna Fortune

CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPIST

My five-year-old twin daughters are highly sensitive, one especially so, and the other has always had big separation anxiety where I'm concerned and still has phases where she has bowel accidents, especially when she is worried. They are happy kids, have no issues with friends and enjoy school.  But there are times when they get really nervous and still quite dependent on me.  So much so that they ask for me to come with them to the toilet, or neither will go upstairs by herself and generally like to know where I am at all times.