Posted by: drmolly in fear, anxiety on
Sep 01, 2010
Toddlers and preschoolers have all kinds of fears. Here's a concern from a reader on the subject:
Q: My first grandchild, a 13-month-old girl, is normally inquisitive and confident. However, she is afraid of the grandfather clock in our entrance/hallway. It's an open area and she passes through it often. I was not originally concerned but it's loud and strikes without warning (seemingly to her). Last week we were both near it when it chimed and
Your little angel finally went to sleep at 8 o'clock after a long and busy day. Then a few hours later as you are dragging yourself up the stairs to bed you hear your child moaning and wailing. You rush to the crib or bedside and find your child wide-eyed, often sweating and utterly inconsolable. The older the child is, the more words the moaning and wailing will have in it. Your child is thrashing and upset and even when you turn on the
Posted by: drmolly in fear on
Apr 14, 2009
A reader wrote into my Detroit News column with a good question about preschoolers' fears, so I thought I'd answer it here to share with everyone:
Dr. Molly,
My son will be 3 in July. Just recently, the past two weeks, he has showed sudden fears of bugs, vacuums and loud noises. We never had this problem before and I am not sure how to handle it. He starts screaming and shaking. Today at the park over a fly on the slide. At dinner, FedEx
