The weird things your child is scared of

**Aries7** · 06-11-2009 08:47

DD received one of those Abby sesame street talking dolls recently & she's scared stiff of it the minute it starts singing it's little lullaby song. The bottom lip starts quivering & then she completely loses it. She's fine with it when it's not singing!

**c2p08** · 06-11-2009 08:50

Originally Posted by aylaah

My niece is terrified of ants. She sees ants, she screams. Fine with all other bugs, spiders etc, but ants she has a complete panic attack about. She's 6. I was on the phone to her mother one time and she was screaming and crying like she'd broken her arm or something, I dunno it sounded like she'd had a major accident! She'd sat down and there was a line of ants near her, and she spied it...

My DD is scared of ants, she use to play with them and not be scared of any bugs or anything like that but over the last few weeks she has become terrified of them, shell sit on the ground and play but as soon as she sees an ant she has to get rid of it, or i do, and if i dont all hell breaks lose.

**Tls5431** · 06-11-2009 09:57

the vacuum cleaner... on or off it is not allowed within her sight...

Also her grandfather... he looks like santa and has a very big booming voice... poor grandfather

**zephani** · 06-11-2009 12:52

DD is scared of those stress balls that have thousands of tendrils hanging off it. The ones that look like they are covered in hair. You know the ones that you can squeeze and a big section of it comes out. We used them ar Gymbaroo yesterday fir massage. She pushes them away and scrunched her face up at it.

**Boobycino** · 06-11-2009 13:12

My sister in laws pet rainbow loreekeit (sp?) in its cage but not when its out of its cage, and not the loreekeits that come onto our balcony. When he sees the one in the cage he shakes and backs on up and cries... and he's not afraid of ANYTHING else! This baby dives head first under the water without a second though, jumps on the couch, runs up to strange dogs, chatters away to strangers wherever we go... but a bird in a cage OMG!!! PANIC!!!!

**neekynoo** · 06-11-2009 13:38

Ducks, lawn mowers and vacuum cleaners. She is slowly getting better with them but as long as she can grip onto your leg, neck anything really for comfort.

There is also an episode of "In the night garden" where Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy get "mucky" patches or dirt all over them. DD cannot watch this episode without losing it. She gets very upset and concerned about the mucky patches. She only stops crying once we sit down and explain that it's ok because Makka Pakka is going to clean them for her. She hates having "mucky" hands too.