To ask what random things your DC have decided they’re scared of

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My 8 month old DS has today decided he’s terrified when I yawn- he’s been fine with it for the last 8 months but now it’s terrfiying to him! Now every time I yawn he whips around to look accusingly at me and I have to pretend I’m doing something else.

Anyone else have any other DC that are afraid of something new/random?

Can’t think of anything my kids are scared of.

But I was absolutely petrified of the Banana Splits when I was little. I remember running out to the garden crying to get away from them.

Anyone singing happy birthday, if we were in a restaurant with ds and it was someones birthday i would have to ask to ask the staff to warn us when they were going to sing so i could leave the room .

Dd was scared of the fucking man in the moon

Every Tuesday when I picked her up in the dark from the childminders she would wail alllllll the way home “I don’t like man on moon. I no like man on moon. No man on moon nooooo”

Yeah thanks nana that was a long winter

My daughter was terrified of me not blinking or staring at her for to long she would totally freak out .. bin lorry lights was another one had to close the curtains when ever I heard it in the street .

When ds1 was 2 he used to be distraught over Iggle Piggles mucky patch. He's 4 now and can watch that episode but you can see the fear was real

Great thread some of these responses are really funny! Poor kids

My dd was frightened of the ninky nonk from in the night garden whenever it was on the telly whizzing around she uses to run to me screaming and would then need to cling to me sobbing for extended periods of time and would usually be so traumatised she would simply have to go to sleep (on me)

Shes now frightened of getting in anything especially coupe car, sitting on a chair on her own unless its a sofa, her unicorn rocking horse and she hates children she doesnt know but thats my fault as I've been lazy with attending groups and soft play which i have to admit since i have been making more of an effort shes getting better.

DS2 (now 9) screamed every time Waybuloo came on. He was inconsolable if we accidentally left it on CBBC and the show came on.

Baked beans. DS2 is petrified he may eat I e by mistake somehow, can't even look at then without retching in terror.

Both my boys were scared of hand driers when they were small.

I was terrified of Coronation Street as a child! I saw the episode where Alfred Roberts' first wife died in a car crash and I would run crying upstairs whenever the theme tune came on for about a year afterwards. Wouldn't watch it again til I was about 10. Now I wonder what my mum was thinking letting me watch it at such a young age anyway.

devora13 I hate butterflies! They’re really scary, it’s how unpredictable they are and if one flew at me I would cry so my sympathies go to your son!

The shapes on Mr Maker! He was 3 and loved Mr Maker but would scream and hide when the shapes started singing

My nephew used to be petrified of grass aswell when he was younger!

My DS (5) is scared of spiders, he will check the bedroom EVERY NIGHT before bed. Oh and everytime we leave he has to walk out the door with his hood up incase a bird poops on his head! It did actually happen once. Vampires - we have to tell him all the time they aren't real.

@RainbowsandUnicorns23
Vampires - we have to tell him all the time they aren't real
Don't lie to your child. Arm him with garlic.

Her own shadow as a toddler, poor child was terrified of it.
Years ago my cousin at 3 screamed 'Fevver' and ran away if an odd one floated from a cushion.

Flies

DS1 used to descend into a full-on sobbing, gasping meltdown of devastation if I sang "On top of spaghetti", the one about the poo meatball that rolls under the door and gets turned into mush. I remember him choking out "it just...makes...makes..me feel SO SAD" with tears pouring down his face.

I hummed it when he was 12 to see if it had gone. It hadn't. We had half a day of him questioning my love for him and accusing me of torture.

He's 15 now and I daren't

POOR fucking meatball. FFS MN, get an edit facility

😂 tell him from me that's very sweet! He'll act all macho and brave! 😂

I daren't even bring the subject up!

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