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Fear of children, or occasionally called paedophobia, is fear triggered by the presence or thinking of children or infants. It is an emotional state of fear, disdain, aversion, or prejudice toward children or youth. Paedophobia is in some usages identical to ephebiphobia. [1] [2] [3]
Children during their developmental stages experience fears. Fear is a natural part of self-preservation. Fears allow children to act with the necessary cautions to stay safe. [5] According to Child and Adolescent Mental Health, "such fears vary in frequency, intensity, and duration; they tend to be mild, age-specific, and transitory."
The refrain of parents is “I love all my children equally.” But not all kids get treated equally. ... How a Favorite Impacts Every Family Member for Life.” Maybe the child you favor has a ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Here's why students should continue attending school, even if they're afraid, according to a Prisma Health psychiatrist. Why scared children should continue to go to school, according to Prisma ...
Little children witnessed teachers injured and screaming for help in the mass shooting at a private Christian school in Madison, Wis. Nora Gottschalk, 8, said she was walking in the hallway ...
Fear of the dark is a common fear or phobia among toddlers, children and, to a varying degree, adults. A fear of the dark does not always concern darkness itself; it can also be a fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by darkness. Most toddlers and children outgrow it, but this fear persists for some with scotophobia and anxiety.
It’s summer now. Schools are, for the most part, empty. But that doesn’t mean our children aren’t thinking about them. Or, more specifically, the potential for gun violence at school.