15 Books Help Kids Overcome Their Fears

A Story for Children About Visiting the Doctor by Howard S. Big Bear lovingly brings brighter and brighter lanterns to help ease the cubs fears.

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The first step in helping your child to overcome their irrational fear is to accept their feelings as real and respond to them sensitively.

15 books help kids overcome their fears. Do not support belief in your childs imaginative creatures. 10 Duck Death And The Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch. This column offers one method of helping kids sort out and cope with fearsread to them.

Try these books to help them overcome their fears. Praise and encourage your child when he tries to overcome fear. Developing a better understanding of insects spiders and other bugs goes a long way toward making them seem less scary.

Kids with needle phobias may be helped by reading Lions Arent Scared of Shots. Help prepare children for situations they may find frightening. What may seem funny or trivial to you is very real to your child.

Even if your child hasnt directly experienced loss this book can also help with feelings of separation anxiety. Listen to your child. The more you know and the less you assume the better able youll be to help children work through their fears.

Through dramatic play children can feel empowered to work through their insecurities. Try to determine the actual cause of the fear. Dont make fun of your childs fears.

Here are some tips to help your child overcome nighttime fears. When those dont help theres only one thing left to do. Dont overdramatize or draw attention to it.

More information on storm safety can be found online in our child safety book 5. Its a simple and visual way to get a child to verbalise their fears. And the book Imagine a Rainbow.

By Jessica Spera March 8 2016. 15 books to help kids conquer their nighttime fears. Ask them to tell you about their fears and what exactly makes them afraid.

Do not ridicule or dismiss your childs feelings or become frustrated and angry. Childrens points of view helps immensely. Read a story about going to the dentist or ask a firefighter to visit the school and allow children to handle the equipment while you stand nearby for reassurance.

But just as we fear we can also overcome if we learn to harness the courage within ourselves. 1 20 Photo. This soothing story ranks up there with our other favorite bedtime stories like Good Night Moon.

Written by Nicola Winstanley and illustrated by Olivia ChinMueller Tundra Books. Im now buying it again Ive bought several as gifts my friends are foster carers The Worries by Rachel Taranaki. Read books that feature characters your child can relate to characters who face a similar fearwho cope with itand ultimately conquer their fearsBooks allow children to stand back from their fears and to.

They help us explain to our kids that fears are universal. Express confidence he will eventually succeed. Ask open-ended questions to allow your child to tell you what makes him or her scared at bedtime.

Find storybooks that discuss the fear to read with your child. Find ways to break the feared experience into small manageable steps. Give your child frequent reassurance she is safe.

Such knowledge gives many kids a sense of control and comfort that will help keep their anxiety at a manageable level. Talk about how being inside a car or building protects them from lightning or how to take shelter from a tornado.

Begin by identifying the fear. Show your child that you understand their fears but that you dont necessarily share them. Here are some ideas to help your child overcome the fear of bugs.

Teacher authors book to help kids overcome fear of vaccines Katherine Picarde wrote the book The Little Ouch to help kids who are afraid of going to the doctors office. Always take your childs fear seriouslydont minimize it. What is your child afraid of.

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