The "LMA" Syndrome

Have you heard about the "LMA" syndrome? I too haven't until recently. Whom did I hear this from? Unbelievably, it was my 5 year old daughter who showed me hands-on how the "LMA" syndrome feels like. Fortunately my wife has escaped this but is certainly upset that I had to go through it.

This is one thing every parent dreads, may be at least me. In my opinion, the last thing a parent would ever want to experience was the "LMA" syndrome. This one shot my Blood Pressure up beyond Level 2 Hypertension. I believe it could possibly cause giddiness and a possible black out, loss of appetite and sleep among lot of other health and mental problems.

For a Father (certainly mother too, but I have to stick to my blog title) from India (certainly a lot of other countries too, due to space constraint I am using my mother country for example) where it is just normal to be so emotionally attached to the sons/daughters during their childhood, adolescent and adulthood, let them sleep in the same bed until they hate to hear the loud snore, help them make every step in their life cautiously with 100% money-back guarantee on all their decisions, help them choose a good partner for life (may be not anymore) and so on. I am just yet another Father from India who wants to stay that way.

One fine day, I experience this "LMA" syndrome from my daughter and I started to worry if I would lose that emotional bonding with her sooner than I thought. Will she stop looking up to me as her role model? (may be better if she does..;)), Will she stop thinking that I am "The Bestest Father" in this world? (Something I used to hear more often from her), Will she just leave us one fine day and go on her own to sleep alone in the other bedroom? (What else, eh?)... the list of worries unlimited.

Hmmm.. May be I am thinking too much about a simple issue. May be the situation is not bad as I think. But how do I know? How to gauge how bad the current situation is with my daughter's "LMA" attitude towards me? I really don't know. But I have not see the "LMA" issue recur itself again and I am hoping it does not. But if it happens, I am going to take it very seriously and consult the right experts to have it fixed at an early stage before it gets out of hand. I am praying it does not occur again and my daughter has not shown any signs of any "LMA" attitude again. Keeping fingers crossed!!!

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