A Child Should Not Be a Hostage to Childhood

Updated: May 2026.

Animago is an online team of highly qualified therapists who work with children and coach parents using evidence-based methods. For children ages 3–7, Animago therapists meet as animated characters over live video.
We help with common childhood challenges — fears, anxiety, low confidence, shyness, and more — and support healthier parent-child relationships. The Animago team has already helped more than 2,500 children build resilience!

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When an Anxious Child Grows Up with fear of loss, with fear of being abandoned or harmed, with mistrust, uncertainty, lack of independence and a sense of danger – this not his problem.

This is an adult problem that manifests itself in a child.. Adults who interacted with the child differently than he needed. Who didn’t care, didn’t keep promises, and were inconsistent. Adults on whose intelligence, warmth, self-regulation and understanding it is difficult for him to rely.

The parents’ problems manifest themselves in the child, but these problems not his. To stay healthy, it is important for the child to understand that these difficulties are not his responsibility.

It is also important for him to understand that it can influence these problems. There are many reasonable and positive tools for solving problems – they need to be given to the child by teaching him:

1. Focus on yourselfto become aware of your own desires, interests and needs.
2. Don’t store emotions inside, talk about your feelings with close adults, for example, with your parents or psychologist.
3. Don’t take on unnecessary responsibility.
   Remind your child and yourself that his job is to be a child and grow up happy, and solving adult problems is the job of adults.
4. Search and find your joys, do what brings pleasure and develops: play, engage in hobbies, study.
5. Ask for helpif the feelings are too strong and confusing. Unfortunately, when it comes to feelings rather than things, many children do not ask loved ones for support, taking the brunt of the stress upon themselves.

A child can and should be given the power to influence his or her life.. He does not have to be a hostage, he can be an active participant in his childhood. He can build it himself together with his parents!

Classes with an experienced psychologist will help your child understand emotions, develop resilience, and learn appropriate ways to cope with stress factors.

What if you learned that your child’s fears, worries, and insecurities are not his own feelings, but a reflection of the adult world? In the cards we tell you why this is so.

Every child has a chance to get rid of this burden and build their own happy childhood. Animago psychologists provide children with cutting-edge tools and parents with expert support and understanding.

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