Jay Giedd, M.D., a child psychiatrist with the National Institutes of Health reports that kids are stressed by different fears at different ages. He reported that these are the things that kids are most anxious about.
Kids have trouble being away from mom.
Even being handed to grandma, unless she's there all the time, may be hard for them. Children are also frightened about being kidnapped, or anything else that would pull them away from their parent. Only 1 percent pf all grandparents, however, agreed that either of the child's parents did not want the grandparent to see the child more often. There is relatively little research on the actual impact of grandparents on grandchildren. Other researchers have found similar results.