Children go through several evolutionary stages during the growth process and during this process they develop different types of emotions from which to learn. One of the emotions that is most present throughout life is the well-known FEAR. Not knowing how to manage it properly can hurt and influence the child's way of relating and being happy.
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Children go through several evolutionary stages during the growth process and during this process they develop different types of emotions from which to learn. One of the emotions that is most present throughout life is the well-known FEAR. Not knowing how to manage it properly can hurt and influence the child's way of relating and being happy.
After a time without being able to leave the house, when children can finally go for a walk, they may have different feelings. Many may find it a great relief, however others may develop a fear of leaving home. This fear or anguish of going out after isolation or confinement (or after a long period without being able to leave the house due to illness, for example) has been called cabin syndrome, but can it also affect to the kids?
Fear is an emotion that does not understand ages. Both children and adults are afraid of something: they, perhaps of things like being alone at home or the dark, and the elderly, of failing at work or, of being bad parents. How to help children face their fears? How to ensure that our fears do not affect their development and personality?
Knowing what to do when children are afraid is just as important as what not to do. Fear of going outside, fear of sleeping alone, fear of the dark, of strangers ... there are many situations that cause fear in children. For children to overcome their fears, the attitude of parents is essential.