Children are unusually prone to fear. At one level, our children’s fearfulness makes sense - being small is scary. But what if things are not quite as they seem? What if some childhood fear is driven not by feeling too small, but by feeling too big?
Many children in the UK are anxious. No-one’s life is normal at present. Bad things do happen, hard things are real, and life doesn’t always turn out the way we hope it will.
Karen Sleeman suggests some ways that we can nurture growth in fearful children.