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Blenders, coffee grinders, car washes, and other scary things
Audrey has recently entered into the "everything scares the crap out of her" stage. I've started trying to do the blending, coffee grinding when she's not around.
(Thanks to Nick Jr. a segment where the kids make smoothies scares her, too.)
Yesterday she lost her mind when we went through the car wash. She's been before. I tried to distract her w/ a video on my phone, held her hand from the front seat, etc. But she screamed and cried like it was torturing her.
If she hears people mowing outside she seems very concerned and will report when they are "all done."
Is this just a normal stage? Is there anything I can do to help her... or not encourage the behavior? Part of me wonders if my reaction (hugs, kisses, rocking, etc) might be encouraging the freak outs. But, she gets that attention all day anyway.
Thoughts?
ETA: ... and vacuums! Scares the snot right out of her.
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Re: Blenders, coffee grinders, car washes, and other scary things
It seems everything is scary to Betsy. She won't watch her princess movies anymore because they have "mean queens." The car wash, toilets that flush automatically, the wolves/fire/mean deer in Bambi (she hides behind the couch or in her room during these scenes). She was even hesitant to ride the rides at Disney that might have mean characters. We had her ride them anyway and she was fine.
The other day, she came out from her nap when we were watching Pearl Harbor (with Ben Affleck). She saw a guy's hand go limp after they couldn't get him out of the ship in time and asked, "did he die?" I said yes and she said why. Not really ready for that convo yet. I didn't want to scare her anymore than she already is.
DD has entered the stage of fears as well... she is afraid of rain, bugs, it scares her when it starts getting dark outside, the dog's barking scares her (even though we've had the dog since before she was born and it never bothered her until a few months ago), and I'm sure there are more that I'm forgettting.
I just try and reassure her that these things are ok, and DH and I make it a point to act like these things are no big deal (even though I hate spiders
)
Because we're fancy like that.
Yup - my DS is terrified of the vacuum, too (or "gapun" as he says, lol). He won't even go in a room when the vacuum is in there without me.
He also announces when the lawn mower is all done, but I am not sure he is afraid of it - he loves his toy mower, and loves to watch DH mow the lawn (but inside the house from the window). I haven't done the car wash in a while, but it would not surprise me if he was afraid of it!
DD, on the other hand, doesn't seem to notice any of this. I could never dry my hair when DS was around or vacuum even at her age. But she could care less. i wonder if it will change as she gets older...