WTF, the almost four year old version

[rainsinger]

Things which my son does not find frightening:

Climbing on high things.
Trying to leap from high things.
Befriending every stray dog and feral cat.
Diving into freezing water.
Swimming without any kind of floatation aid.

Things which terrify my four year oldWolves. Particular hypothetical wolves, with mystical ability to leap through walls

Comments

[yiskah]

Oh man. I feel for you, and in retrospect I feel for my parents, because as a child I was very similar - absolutely no sense of physical fear at all (happy to climb high things, leap from high things, leap over things, plunge into deep water etc.), but terrified by a whole load of completely random things - including wolves (the story of the three little kids shared the living shiznit out of me), and, awkwardly, the moon. I couldn't sleep in a room with curtains that let in any tiny scrap of moonlight as a child, though perhaps strangely I now actively prefer to sleep with my windows open.

[rainsinger]

This is immensely comforting actually, because you are SO LOVELY that if that is the end product of random childhood anxieties, then I can totally live with it.

[chiller]

FWIW, I think it's perfectly valid to have a sense of humour FAIL. I thought shouting incoherently at one's children about going the hell back to bed at 3am was normal? And indeed was the only way children ever learn that Waking Mummy Up At 3am Is Not A Good Idea?

No?

I've been known to chase Anton around the house with a squirty gun and a face on me like the grim reaper at 3am, when he decides to sing songs. Yet somehow he still loves me. Maybe it's different with cats. :\

[rainsinger]

I am SO tempted, but I sadly believe the Spray Bottle Of Reprimand is frowned upon in parenting. Hmph.

[chiller]

*sigh* I would have made a truly awful parent. Truly.