Can anyone help or suggest some ideas.
This past few weeks DD (3y 3m) has developed a series of completely irrational fears that seem to be taking over at home.
Anything vaguely resembling an insect, sider, bee, fly, whatever - she is suddenly terrified of them all.
It has come from nowhere; can't thing of any trigger.
She only has to see a fly in the apartment and she is hysterical with fear. This lunch tume a fly came in the bathroom where she was on the toilet - so kinf of trapped with it. She was so scared - screaming for me, crying, etc. A few minutes later she was sick, a little, - probably brought on by this.
I have tried ignoring it. I have tried reasoning with her (she is a bright, alert, articulate child - this normally works) over it. We have discussed the worst case scenarios - why can a fly do to you, etc. We've compared her size to its. I have tried showing her to just waft it away.
I am running out of ideas.
Really need to nip this in the bud now. Any suggestions would be great. TIA.
BTW, nursery hasn't mentioned it so presumably they do not have the same problems with her, about it. She has been like it at PILs though when they look after her.
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3yo suddenly has irrational fears; how to stop them???
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Hulababy · 11/07/2005 13:45
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