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Maybe your dd will not ever go through the "monster phase;" maybe she will remain fearless and will decide that jumping from planes, diving in a shark cage and hangliding across the ocean is the best way to spend a summer!
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Yikes! Maybe I should encourage her to be afraid of monsters! Truthfully, she's the bravest person I know. She has already had the scariest thing in the world happen to her -- which was to be taken from the only home she ever knew for 18 months and get us as parents. (not sure which was the scariest -- us as parents or the losing her only home!)
Like Ryan, she hangs back and evaluates the situation to get a feel for what the dynamic is so she can adjust. She seems unusually in tune with people's attitudes and more than once has tried to joke us out of a bad mood.