The majority of my children are deathly afraid of spiders.
While I certainly understand the irrational fear of particular creatures (my phobia is snakes — I can’t stand to even look at pictures of them), I don’t have any particular aversion to spiders. The kids fall to pieces when they see a spider, begging me to come get rid of it.
Therefore, when Cody used his arachnophobia regarding an imagined spider as a ploy to get out of bed the other night, I was seriously annoyed. I told him to go back to bed and not worry about spiders he couldn’t even see.
When Logan came out of his room two minutes later crying about the spider he saw on his wall and how it was going to attack him in his sleep, I became further annoyed with Cody for starting the panic in the first place. It took about ten minutes of reassurance that the spider, not visible under his bed, must have gone through the floor of his room into the living room below, where I sat, before Logan could relax and even laugh.
Evidently the image of me sitting there, innocently working on my computer and being frightened by a spider, similar to Miss Muffet, was funny enough to conquer the fear.
What are your kids scared of?
At my house, it isn’t spiders, it’s moths! Ever since my grandmother told my littlest that moths eat your clothes, she’s been freaked out. I told my grandmother so maybe she’d help me ease the fear, but I was too hopeful. The old woman just laughed and thought it was the funniest thing that I was kept up because I couldn’t catch a moth of all things. (She was kept up by me when I was a little girl because the tree by my bedroom window would scratch at the window. I hate windows at night to this day.)
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