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Development Topics
Overcoming Childhood Fears
Fear and anxiety lower your child’s confidence and self-esteem if he doesn’t know how to overcome them.
Set the stage for him to enjoy a freer, more fulfilling life.
• Increase your child’s understanding of how these unwelcome fears can keep him from enjoying life. Common foes include fear of the dark and separation anxiety.
• Give him strategies for defeating them.
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Communicate and pray with him about his phobias.
- Evaluate the atmosphere in your household. Determine whether you are contributing to your children’s anxieties by living at a hectic pace or allowing a high level of stress at home.
Regardless of the root of our children’s fears, it is crucial that we validate their concerns. When a child knows he has his parents on his team — and knows he is taken seriously — he has more confidence to combat his fears.
—Traci Pedone
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