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I used to dread Sunday mornings. Not the whole going-to-church thing, obviously (for those of you who were about to pelt me with remaindered books for heresy). It's more that when my children were toddlers, I could guarantee they would throw five-star screaming fits whenever I tried to leave them in Sunday School.  Me on a Sunday morning... One of them had a particular penchant for screeching at full volume as I walked out of the door…and yet, as I loitered outside said door in a state of mother-guilt indecision, I could hear the wailing decrescendo at a rapid rate until they were indistinguishable from all the other boisterous two-year-olds. Forty-five minutes later, they’d barely glance up at me as I went to retrieve them.   Separation anxiety is seen as a normal part of child development, and it’s a stage that most children grow out of quite quickly. It seems like one minute they’re clinging to your leg like an over-zealous Rottweiler , and the next they’re rolling th...