My four and a half year old son has up until starting school been a very strong, forthright, opinionated and confident little boy. Not the easiset child to parent but lovely and not a worry at all. Since starting a small, local school that I personally am very happy last month with he has developed some troubling anxieties that the school have noticed and picked up. One is around the fear that a plane is going to come down and hit him or drop bombs on him (we see many planes overhead including military sometimes). Apparantly he has to often run inside if he sees a plane and I have witnessed this with him too when at a local playground. The second fear is around the police which doesnt make any sense at all as we as a family speak highly of police and have police friends and contacts.
He has settled reasonably well at school but there are still tears some mornings and he says he doesnt like some aspects of school. My instinct tells me these new anxieties which have come out of the blue and knocked me for six is some kind of shool related anxiety.
While not the perfect parent (who is?) I have alwasy been very careful what he watches on TV (no news, adult programmes in background etc) and also what I say about things. To me planes are positive, remind me of holidays etc and I say this to him daily. I have suffered with anxiety myself in the past but am now much better and I worry I have passed this on to him in some way either heritary or other.
I would love some re-assurrance or advice what to do next and how to handle this as it is really worrying me. At the moment I am considering going our family doctor (without DS1) to talk it through but am I overreacting?