How to Dealing with Children’s Fears
If your child suffers from a fear is very important to convey peace, safety, and help you overcome your fears with love and understanding. In a general way, the fears are often found in children aged 3 to 6 years of age. The child still does not understand the world around him and is not able to separate the real from the imaginary. In the first years of life, the child knows of the existence of characters through stories, films, while going to invent colleagues and characters, and even imaginary situations.
The fears appear and disappear in children
Some fears become detrimental to child development, however there are others that may even cause the child to avoid an accident: For example: fear of crossing a street, swing fear of falling, fear of animals, etc. There are fears that teach the child to be more cautious in situations that require more care.
According to some researchers, the fears come and go, sometimes without realizing it and changed to the extent that the child grows older. Children begin to be afraid of strange people, strange objects, loud noises, darkness, and then begin to be afraid of death, monsters, thieves, etc. Most of these fears are induced by the external environment such as movies, stories, stories of the friends, and others are based on bad experiences at home or outside it, and indeed can serve as a warning to parents to identify some situations of abuse or neglect their child.
One of the most common fears in young children is the painful separation from parents, fear of abandonment. When his mother left him in a daycare or with someone else and leaves the infant or child does not know how much you should expect to see her again. And there appears the fear of permanent loss because the child does not have the ability to measure time. But as the child matures with more depth will know the reality, and overcome their fears. And you can not eliminate all their fears because they also allow understanding the world and feeling more confident in their ability to fight fear.
