I invited a friend from nursery to play with my 3 year old DD this morning but I spent the whole time trying to convince them that there was nothing wrong with flies. My DD is normally a bit wary of them but her friend was REALLY scared so DD copied her to the point that at one stage they were both in tears. I explained lots of times that flies don't hurt, that in fact they're friendly and just wanted to have a look at the toys. (The two of them refused to get in the paddling pool convinced that even blades of grass were flies). So the best way I thought of handling the situation was showing them how to say "shoo, shoo fly" and swat their hands at said fly to make it go away. It kind of worked. But how could I have handled this better? This kind of situation is bound to happen again so I want to know what's the best way I can deal with it when it happens. (It nearly drove me mad, as my DD is normally pretty chilled!)
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