My toddler seems excessively dependent on me, what should I do?

My toddler seems excessively dependent on me, what should I do?

The clingy phase that starts with babies, just clinging to the people that are most important to them, is still very much there in many toddlers. Depending on your child's individual personality, some are more clingy than others, and some are quite independent and hardly go through a phase like this, but others right up until say, about three will still be very keen to keep parents close to them and not that keen on playing with strangers. This again is all part of normal behavior. From about three plus, children are usually able to manage longer periods without parents and will tend to be less clingy.