My 5 year old daughter's new friend seems very mature for her age.

Hi all. After a long and hard lockdown my oldest daughter who turned 5 earlier this year has recently been enjoying making new friends. One girl in her class she seems to really get on with in particular and I have arranged a number of play dates with her parents this summer. The thing is despite being the same age as my daughter this girl has two older siblings (an 8 year old sister and 10 year old brother) which seems to be that as a result she is a lot more mature than my daughter, who in comparison just has her 3 year old sister.I know it probably doesn’t seem like a big deal but this has brought up a lot of new challenges and concerns for me. Firstly, it has made me worried that being a single Dad and wanting to protect my two daughters after their mother left them when they were still very young has meant that I have been over protective of them (and especially my oldest). There certainly does seem to be a gap in maturity between my daughter and her new friend. I don’t mean intellectually but rather that compared to her friend I’ve become very aware my daughter is quite naïve and not as ‘savvy’. I guess that maybe comes from her having older siblings but at the same time I worry I’ve babied my daughter too much. Also, I’m a little bit worried that while my daughter and her new friend seem to really get on that maybe having a comparatively ‘mature’ friend might damage her self-confidence a little? Maybe I’m totally overthinking it but it’s something I’ve just been thinking about a lot.Thanks a lot for reading this! via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/3CGic9j