Let’s share our kids weird, kind of funny fears?

[Homebirdy]

I’ll go first..
DS 5yo, went with his dad to his family’s farm last year, where DS stepped on what he through was some solid ground was actually some super deep mud.. he sunk to about his knees and his shoes got stuck in the mud. Dad pulled him out, all fine.. except DS doesn’t trust any ground that’s not concrete anymore 🤣 everywhere we go if there grass, or dirt.. anything that isn’t concrete or gravel he will hesitate and ask if he will sink, once he sees anyone else walking on it, or he’s good it’s fine he’ll walk on it himself all good.

but also, he doesn’t ever want to go to the farm again.. and will refuse to go if we mention it.. and when I mention needing to go to the pharmacy he gets really worked up that we’re going the farm 🤣 the amount of times I’ve explained the pharmacy isn’t the farm and he still says no.

Poor kid! Hope he gets over it with time.

DD (13yo) is scared of being drowned by a jellyfish. Not stung by one, just drowned by one. She knows its impossible rationally... but shes scared of them.

DD (14yo) has grown out of her anteater fear. She dudnt like how the tail and nose looked too similar.

When our adult DD was very young she couldn’t cope with seeing people wearing those leggings/ jodhpurs with elastic under the feet!
She thought they were stuck to their feet somehow!!
We were once in a shoe shop and she had both hands over her eyes! Someone with the elastic under their feet was trying shoes on!

@Homebirdy Bless him. Maybe say Chemist for Pharmacy for now?

DD, now 17, had a fear of Father Christmas. Not just the fear of meeting him in a department store setting but the specific fear of him coming into her room on Christmas Eve with her presents. I had to leave her stocking outside her bedroom door.
To be fair, she was pretty clued up not wanting a middle-aged man in her bedroom!

My son is afraid of buttons. He has to wear a jumper so no one can see them on his school shirt.

My 2yr old has recurring nightmares about dolphins. I think he's okay with them in real life (I mean, it doesn't come up much) but will ocassionally shut the door to the room we're in "so dolphins don't happen".

I think it started when he got really worked up about me losing a race in Mario Kart and then had a dream that a dolphin was in his room and hitting me with it's tail.

When my children were young, my son was afraid of static electricity and squirrels (you never know what they’re going to do) and my daughter was afraid a shark would hide under her bed.

Poison frogs. We lived in NZ, not the Amazon.

DD is now 15 and she was terrified of the shapes from Mr Maker. We used to have to turn it over. She said it was the rectangle with his deep voice.

I’d definitely try and say chemist instead of pharmacy from now on!

Up until recently my dd9 was terrified of elevators and escalators. She is afraid that they will get stuck. She would flat out refuse to go somewhere if she knew we would have to travel in one. Thankfully she is coming round although she still fears the lifts in car parks so we have to take the stairs.

I was exactly the same when I was a kid, especially escalators going down. My mum avoided them as much as possible but we were once in a shop where the only way down was via escalator. I remember screaming the place down but it cured the fear.

@Homebirdy I can remember going into town with my mum and her saying "we've got to call at the bank first". Then being confused when we came home and had not been to the river bank - the only bank I knew.