Each person has sensation of fear. The feeling of alarm or a fright can be short-term and be a consequence of any events, but in certain cases it can become the constant partner in life and turn into the real phobia. Children's fears have the specifics. In the absence of attention from parents to alarms of the child the usual fright can lead to developing of mental disorders not only at preschool, but also adult age.
The main feature of children's fear is the scale of the situations or objects capable to be alarming or the real panic at the child. The subject, an animal, a certain atmosphere or a situation can be a source of feeling of a fright. In most cases parents provoke fear at the child, telling terrifying stories, frightening the kid by fictional characters and other situations.
Are the main reasons for sensation of fear at the child:
- fright which in literal sense is imposed by parents;
- the fear arising because of constant humiliation of the child by adults;
- existence of an unsuccessful situation in family;
- lack of attention from parents to development of the child;
- excessive care of the child.
All specified factors practically always become the reasons of emergence in children of the fears which are gradually turning into phobias. For example, if mom or dad were bitten by a dog, then such situation becomes continuous caution for the child. The children's mentality perceives an animal as a source of danger and at the sight of a dog there is the real panic attack. Similar situations can be observed with the natural phenomena, other representatives of fauna and also insects, reptiles, specific people (strangers or old men).
Fears can arise at children because of absence or excessive guardianship from parents. In the first case the child remains in private with the alarms and strengthens them by means of the imagination. In the second situation the parents try to save the child from any source of danger because of what the kid can be afraid even at least for a minute to remain one.
If the child is afraid of the dark, animals or finds other sources for alarm, then such manifestations cannot be disregarded at all. Otherwise it is necessary to treat children's mentality throughout a long time. If correction of children's fear does not manage to be carried out by own forces, then it is necessary to ask for the help experts.