My oldest daughter is about to turn 13 in August and of course I am excited for her, but I get such anxiety thinking about how old she is getting. She used to be very quiet and a mommys girl and though we remain to be very close our relationship has changed as well. She has become more outgoing and she is very very silly, like me, she has a big group of very nice friends. However she wants to do more and more stuff like go to movies, and the mall and sleepovers however I just have this fear of letting her go off w/o me. I get butterflies in my stomach and terrible things run thru my mind of what could happen. For the most part I don't let her know of all my fears cause I don't want her to live a paranoid life but this is just the beginning. She is going to grow more and more independant and want to go to parties and learn to drive and so forth and I already feel myself worrying about that time right now. It can be overwhelming literally. My hubby is very laid back and calm and I swear he never has negative thoughts which helps me to cause he can put some things in perspective for me ALITTLE. Are these feelings pretty much what everyone goes thru?? We are about to hit the teenage years. Any thoughts????