Questions tagged [fears]
Questions regarding analyzing, preventing, or helping a child cope with fearful things in their life.
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How to help 2-year-old overcome fear of swings and slides?
Our two and a half year old daughter has had a strange fear of slides and swings for some time (maybe half a year or more). She doesn't dare to slide alone, only if someone holds her hand, except for ...
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How to help a child overcome their fear of mascots?
My son loves Sesame Street characters, and "costume" characters... When they're on TV.
However, he's very afraid of them in person. He gets clingy, must be picked up, and holds us in a Death grip.
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My child is afraid of death
My daughter is 13, and terrified of death. I'm Christian, and I believe there is a heaven, but she isn't religious- according to her, she's tried, but can't make herself Believe in anything. At first, ...
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How to best prepare a pre-school child for surgery and associated procedures?
My child of four years (and eight months) is soon having surgical treatment. I want to prepare them in the best way possible for the trip to the hospital and best manage any distress around the ...
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Fear of climbing certain staircase by a 6 year old kid
What might be the reasons for a 6 year old kid to get fear for climbing up or down certain staircases in public places?
The kid can climb stairs at home and other frequently used stairs, but gets ...
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What can I do to encourage my 10-year-old boy to try things he is reluctant about?
My boy is 10. He likes maths, handball and Minecraft. He enjoys football socially but isn't particularly passionate about it.
When I offered to teach my son to ride a bike, he wasn't that excited ...
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3 year old and Monster's Inc
My three-year-old son recently watched Monster's Inc. He enjoyed the movie and laughed at the funny parts but there has been a side-effect of the plot. He's now afraid of doors at night time. He ...
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Strange fears in a toddler
Helloall, we are looking for some advice about our 18 month old son.
Since a month or so he has started manifesting strange episodes of fear towards some household objects.
The first instance was a ...
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How do I help my 3 year old daughter who is terrified of what I believe is a ghost?
My 3 year old daughter has no idea what ghosts or scary things are. She doesn't play on youtube or watches scary things on TV, except for Disney movies like Moana and so forth. She mentioned about 3 ...
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How can I address toddler's fear of water over her face?
Our 2.5-year-old daughter used to love baths, playing in the pool and just playing with water. Now, she is terrified to bathe. It is a battle to even get her in the tub, let alone to try and clean her ...
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How to explain an online scary story to a 7 year old boy?
My 7 year old kid just started playing the game minecraft. He quite enjoyed it, played it a lot and also watched many related youtube videos.
However, he watched some youtube videos about "Entity ...
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2 year old son not the typical 2 year old boy
Just wondering if anyone has a 2 year old Son that isn’t the typical two year old boy?
My son is so gentle, scared of a lot of things (riding bikes, scooter etc. He doesn’t jump around and play rough ...
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Overcoming an irrational fear of long guns
My 10 year old daughter has developed an acute fear of long guns. This is problematic because we go shooting at the range where I've been showing her guns bigger than our little revolver. This is ...
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Im scared of my dads yelling at me for little things [closed]
So i cleaned my room and i was in a hurry so forgot to do the bed and forgot to close a cabinet, when i get home my dad starts screaming at me and this always happens and i always cry and now i'm ...
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Is my wife an over-protective parent and how does this influence my child?
My daughter is 10 months old.
Since her birth, my wife has never even once left the baby with me alone. First it was breastfeeding, then other excuses. She's constantly around me. Constantly ...
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Why is my toddler afraid of talking puppets?
My 2-year-old son enjoys having stuffed animals around him as comfort objects, as well as playing with toy humans and animals. Ever since the first time he saw a talking puppet (around 18 months old, ...
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How to get an 8+ month old acquainted with a grandparent after a rough start?
Our 8 month old son started being aware and wary of strangers since he turned 7 months old. We've discovered that the way to get friendly with him is to approach him slowly. Interact with him from ...
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Helping a child who panics and runs away at the mere mention of 'doctor' [closed]
Little bit of disclosure, I'm a 21-year-old who has no kids, but am a hobbyist writer. I am writing a story with a family and asked this question here because I want to hear from real parents as to ...
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2 year old son refuses to go down onto the floor after seeing a bug
My son is 2. Until recently, he had no problem walking around in the house as a child of that age normally would. However, recently he jumps up into our arms as soon as we come into the house and ...
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Teach a kid to not run from dogs
I live in an area with lots of animals. We have feral cats, dogs that run wild, fox, coyotes, raccoons, and I've seen security footage of a cougar.
My partner and I took our 5 y/o for a walk around ...
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How can I help my daugther with her fears of imaginary animals
Some time ago, my daughter (5 1/2 y/o) started telling us, that she has "scary thoughts" about animals that frighten her. She's talking about king cobra's, weasels (we have a book about an evil weasel)...
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Fear of DAD and leaving [closed]
I'm 26 years but i still stay with my Dad because in a typical african home its a taboo for a lady to leave her fathers and live alone. They see it as her being wayward and she will not have chances ...
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How to teach a 7-year-old that things don't always go her way?
I've noticed that whenever things don't happen how she expects them to happen, my 7-year-old niece starts crying, runs away, or engages herself with another activity that she has more control over.
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How do I help the neighbor's kids not be so scared of me?
My husband and I are in our early thirties and have no children. I don't really have much experience with kids. I am happy to talk to them but have never had any of my own so don't feel super ...
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How to help my 11-years old sister, who is terrified after watching a horror movie?
Context: at a birthday party my 11-years old sister watched Annabelle and Annabelle 2. She told us later that even though she was frightned the whole time, she didn't want to stop watching, mainly for ...
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How to help my 3-year-old who wakes up at night in fear of a bug biting his leg (again)?
My child is 3 years and 2 months old. In the last two weeks, I have seen his behaviour change - he wakes up crying around 2 am, shaking and not allowing his leg to be touched, not wanting a blanket, ...
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How to help a 2 year old with a fear of airplanes?
My just-over-2 year old granddaughter is afraid of aircraft of all kinds passing overhead. No one knows why, and she isn't verbal enough to explain, though she is getting schooled in feeling words. ...
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What are good approaches to lessen fear of insects in a child?
One of my kids is extremely frightened of bugs. As in, if there's a fly/mosquito/bee in the room - far away from her - she will freeze up and refuse to move. If she's in small proximity, she gets uber-...
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Why is my baby suddenly screaming in the bath?
My baby has always loved bath-time, almost since he was born. He learned to splash when he was only a couple of months old and loves to play around with the water, and over the past few weeks I've ...
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What can help my son overcome his fear of ghosts and demons?
My son is afraid of ghosts and demons no matter how much I try to convince him that there's nothing to be afraid of. I read the questions and answers about fear of ghosts, so I thought that as movies ...
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How to help my 8-year-old who can't sleep because she fears she doesn't get enough sleep?
My 8-year-old is so stressed out about not getting enough sleep that she can't sleep. When school started, the teacher explained to them that is is important to get 10 hours of sleep a night because ...
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How to deal with an 18-month-old's separation anxiety when we leave the room? [closed]
we have an 18 month old kid and he has huge excitement of exploring everything he can get his hands on or play with anything. May it be food to eat or my laptop or mobile or TV remote.
For the last 9 ...
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How to help a toddler overcome the fear of water on head?
My 22-month-old daughter absolutely hates getting her hair wet.
At bathtime, she complains (crying, but without tears) when I pour water on her head in preparation for washing her hair (even if I'm ...
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Is it normal for some toddlers to be scared of strangers?
Neither me nor most of my friends have children, so I do not really have anyone I can ask about this.
I am new to the childcare industry and some of the toddlers seem scared of me. I am not used to ...
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How to help 2nd grade daughter who is afraid of many things?
She is scared to sleep alone, even when I am sitting near the bedroom door.
She is scared to go to the bathroom (keeps door open). She needs my company in public bathrooms. I must stand near the door.
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Sudden fear of swimming!
My 2 and half year old girl has always loved swimmming we lived abroad in Spain for most of her life so she was always been in the water, head under or not, we got her some swimming lessons, she went ...
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8yr old boy - afraid of too many things, too laid-back, lacks zeal to compete [closed]
Honestly, I am not sure if I should be getting too worried or worked up about my boy of 8years, but some of the behavioral characteristics seem a bit worrying. Asking the question to see if I should ...
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How can I mitigate how my toddler has generalized a fear related to insects/flies?
I'm typically careful of not instilling needless fears in my toddler as I want her to be afraid of important danger and not everything and anything that might be dangerous.
We went for a vacation ...
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Using scare tactics to get children to obey
My daughter is 18 months old. Recently we have been using scare tactics to make her obey.
Do this or else Aunty from the top floor will come and shout at you
Do this or the dog will come for you
We ...
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How to handle 3-year-old's fear of failure?
The boy is now nearly four years old, and he has a tendency to not wanting to try anything new or doing things he's not good at.
Here are some examples:
If you give him a coloring book and some ...
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If a 4 year old is afraid to swim is it better to keep trying or wait?
My son is afraid of swimming, and has been for a very long time. We first took him to baby swim classes and he never took to it like the other children in the class. I took him to swimming classes ...
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Disciplining: what to do when kid starts hiding his mischief?
We try to set well-defined/predictable and not-to-harsh consequences for mischief of our 4.5-year-old: timeouts, taking away toys, refusing to play, skipping story-time, etc., but no physical ...
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I am 21 and I am terrified beyond belief of my father
I am a 21 year old female living in Egypt and I am beyond terrified of my own father...at least I think he is my father. To say it shortly, I think I might have been adopted at a young age and no one ...
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How do I resolve a child's anxiety for war?
Missile warning siren tests are going to be conducted in Hawaii once per month. Presumably the government will start distributing information on shelters and how to shelter in place, and some schools ...
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How to (or should I even try to) break a zombie fixation for a three-year-old
I have two boys, one eleven, and one three. I don't know exactly how or when, but the 11-year-old has decided that it was a good idea to explain the the 3-year-old all about zombies. Of course he ...
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How can I help my son overcome his fear of dogs so we can enjoy our time together with my puppy?
"Bob" is a divorced dad of a 5 year old boy, "Tom". Tom lives with his mother and also spends a lot of time with his grandma and great grandmother. Both Bob and his ex-wife work full-time and he only ...
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How to encourage the toddler to not to be frightened of the dark?
I believe that the fear of dark, once sets in, doesn't leave easily.
The toddler is 13 months old. She starts crying if left alone when the light goes off at night. She clings to me as long as the ...
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My 6 year old daughter is afraid her Muslim friend will be deported if Trump is elected President
My 6 year old daughter has a best friend at school who is Muslim and from a Muslim family. She is aware of the Presidential race, presumably from news. To my surprise, she has tearfully told me that ...
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Fear developing in three year old
I have a three and a half year old boy. We have been going to this theme park for years, he has gone on all of the rides which are age appropriate since a little more than one without any sign of fear....
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What are effective strategies against social phobia?
Our 5 years old (in a month) daughter has excessive apprehension about being immerged in new environments with people (especially children) she doesn't know. Basically, she will cry her heart out ...
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