I have an 11-year-old son who is finding life quite difficult. He has always suffered from very low self-esteem and confidence, even as a toddler. He has always had a strong need for control and experienced extreme separation anxiety. It even happened while toilet training, when he would “hold on” for as long as possible.
At school, he would give up on things very easily and say “I can’t do it”, or say that something he’d done is “rubbish”.
