Does your child have a phobia?

My daughter was the same way with grass also. It was odd and I could not explain why as there was no type of trauma and or scary moments prior to noticing it was a problem. As she grew older she grew out of it, I never could explain why this was so. Maybe the funny feeling of it brushing on her feet made her feel like something was biting.

Nope, none at all that I can think of. My daughter used to get nervous about a lot of things.. just a stresser and a worrier, a lot like me, but she has calmed down a lot over the years. I had actually completely forgotten how much she used to stress over little things until her Kindergarten teacher reminded me a few months ago. The teacher came into my work and we were chatting, I mentioned the twins were moving up to the next school here (our middle school starts at 4th grade.. weird I know) and she asked how the daughter was handling the transition. I said fine, so far as I knew, she hadn't mentioned having issues or anything. Then she mentioned how in Kindergarten if my daughter forgot her dance shoes on dance day she'd cry all day long and make the teacher call me at home so I can promise my daughter I'd bring them before dance started... and still she wouldn't stop worrying (and she could have danced in just socks if she needed to). Not really a phobia at all.. but still.. Oh, and the summer before kindergarten started my daughter was a complete nervous wreck. She swore she would not go to kindergarten because she was so scared of it. But she had no issues with the transition to 4th grade.. so obviously she's over her fears.

My older daughter is terrified of bees. They do not bother me at all and I just keep an eye on them if one is buzzing by me. I tell her that they are part of nature and will not bother you if you not bother them. She is so scared she runs away screaming every time she sees one. I used to think it was funny but now it is just annoying. She is getting too old to be so scared of bees!

I think that it's a perfectly normal thing for a child to be afraid of something, because if you think about it, the world is a very big place and it's normal for people to be scared of things that they don't understand like a child might be afraid because they don't fully understand the world. I was scared of the future when I was a child, and I didn't understand how people chose who they were going to get married to and have children with. Obviously this fear was when I was younger than 7, as things come a lot clearer as you get to understand the world and everything in it.

Just like you , our daughter when she was a kid was afraid of the dark and sleeping alone. Hence, she basically grew up sleeping with us in our bedroom, but with her own separate bed. She got rid of them, when she started living in a dorm, during her fisrt year in high school. But still, she sleeps with us in our bedroom, thus making her join us in our bed when she sees us laughing at a show we are watching. She likes to laugh with us and being on her bed while us, in ours, alienates her so she would always join us in our bed while we watch tv shows or DVDs.

My first child was afraid of the dark and the only way we could solve it was to keep a dim light on in her room. Part of the problem might have been we lived in a secluded area and it was pitch black outside. No street lights, neighbor lights etc..it was just dark We loved the privacy but she worried about the darkness. She did grow out of it but had that night light for many years.

My daughter had a brief period where she seemed to be scared of the dark, but she seems to be over that now. She actually prefers her room to be completely dark at night most nights. I don't recall my son ever being afraid of anything although he may have had a brief fear of the dark as well.