The child is afraid to fly: how to conquer fear
The child is afraid to fly: how to conquer fear
Tickets are bought, suitcases are collected, but the trip is questionable, because the kid refuses to fly. Unfortunately, such situations are everywhere. And this fear is easy to defeat!
Usually, fear of flying appears at the age of4-6 years, and the reason is often the stories of adults about unsuccessful flights or accidentally seen by the child about the air crash. Keep your own calm. Children always feel the state of their parents intuitively. Therefore, even if you yourself are afraid to fly or are very worried, take yourself in hand and do not show your baby your emotions. Switch the child's attention. If he has already flown, make an accent not on the air flight itself, but on what is waiting for him on vacation - tell me what kind of entertainment and games there will be. The baby flies for the first time? Describe to him, for example, what interesting views will be from the window during the flight. You can show similar videos or watch movies together where children are traveling. Spend the tour. If your city has an airport, be sure to take the child there and show how the planes take off and land. If there is no such possibility, show the child pictures with the device of the plane, such sell in bookshops. More often read stories about flights in the sky. Buy new toys, albums, pencils for your child, take it with you, and give it to him at the airport, so he can distract himself and temporarily forget about his experiences. If there are other children nearby, focus your baby's attention on them, let them get acquainted, turn into the game. Fear will definitely be defeated!
