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Does anyone else have a scaredy-cat kid? I need advice.
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DS1 who is eight is afraid of pretty much everything. He's had bad anxiety for a long time (which is currently being treated) but this is more he's scared of "something" in his room.
He practically REFUSES to go to his room alone (and this is during the day!). I truely don't know what he's afraid of, he won't tell me, it's more of a general "I'm scared" than something specific.
Has anyone else gone through this? How did your child overcome it?
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Re: Does anyone else have a scaredy-cat kid? I need advice.
If he has a therapist, I'd work with her to set up a systematic desensitization plan. Basically, it's taking small steps to gradually replace the anxiety associated with his room with calm, relaxing feelings.
It can be a bit slow to execute, but long term very successful.
It's not efficient to do for every fear, but you can apply some of the princples (e.g., relaxation, breathing) for general fear.
Is he afraid of other rooms in the house? Or is this a sort of ploy to get to sleep with you, or not go to bed?
DD is afraid of noises. Not just loud noises, but random noises that just pop up one day and scare her - like woodpeckers. For two weeks we had to take all of her dolls to daycare with her so that the woodpeckers wouldn't get them. Most of the time I just humor her, and I figure that this too shall pass.
So, we have different kinds of scaredy-cat kids, it seems.
Just venturing a guess here - is your kid's fear of going to sleep in his room more separation anxiety? DD has always been kind of a crappy sleeper, and for her about 75% of it is that she thinks she's missing out on life when she goes to bed - ie, she wants to be with US and doing what we're doing, even if we're sleeping.
He actually has no trouble going to bed, provided I tuck him in at night. And it's not just his room, he doesn't like to be anywhere in the house alone. If it's the weekend and I'm in my room reading and noone but him is there he HAS to be with me or near me.
Is your house haunted?
Kids can sense these things.
Not that I'm aware of.
Then I have no suggestions.