There’s a monster under the bed, your child tells you. Do you explain that they don’t exist? Or get out the “anti-monster spray” to help fight off the fear?
Your first impulse when faced with a child’s irrational fears is probably wanting to explain that there is no reason for being scared. But this is rarely successful, says Ingo Spitczok von Brisinski, from a German association representing child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychosomatic therapists and psychotherapists.
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