Approximately at the age of five years of the child the invented fears begin to disturb. Darkness, dogs, death, fire trucks treat those. The child has already such developed imagination that she becomes able to think up to himself fear.
The inquisitiveness of the kid at the age of five years reads off scale. The child hears a talk of parents and takes them very seriously. From fears those children who were abused too much usually suffer or too sponsored. Such children have a feeling of nervousness and diffidence. But various phobias can develop at children and without above-mentioned components if these children from the birth are too impressionable.
In other words, all children periodically feel any sort fears. When the child reports that he is afraid of something, it should be listened and told that nothing threatens it. It is impossible to frighten intentionally children by wicked witches, police, foreign uncles. Also it is impossible to show them horror films and sad fairy tales. Very painfully the kid perceives a thought that dad and mom will cease to love him if it is not able to conform to their requirements.
Life of the child has to be various, he has to play much with peers. The life of the kid is brighter and more cheerful, the it is less at him than time for unreasonable fears. Well saves a night lamp in the room from fear of darkness. Light is not capable to prevent to sleep to the child so as fear. Gradually fear of darkness absolutely will pass and light is not required any more.
At five-year age of children the thought of possible death usually frightens. Explanations of parents should not frighten the child even more. People usually die at advanced age of a disease. It is necessary to transfer to the child a thought of naturalness of death and at the same time to assure him that it will follow still very at a distant day. At five-year age some children can be afraid of animals. It is not necessary to seek to force to approach you violently the child a dog if he is afraid of her. The persistence from parents will generate obstinacy of the kid. This fear passes by itself.
The same treats also fear of water. To teach to float, having thrown the kid unexpectedly, it is possible only as an exception. With the majority it does not work. The child himself wants to come into water even if is afraid of it. To save the kid from the majority of fears, it is necessary to play more with him. It is necessary to go to the psychiatrist in case fears of the child begin to prevent him to lead full-fledged life.
At five-year age children begin to see physical defects and also to notice that between boys and girls there are distinctions. The child begins to ask the questions interesting him to parents and if answers do not follow, then begins to think out own versions and, as a result, suffer impossibility to understand some questions. You should not see in it unhealthy sexual interest. If to suppress physiological questions, it is possible to generate sex vision at the child as something dangerous. The serious lecture does not need to be organized too. It is necessary to treat everything more simply and to offer to the child the most clear explanations. It is better to do it on examples.