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Amanda
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Hi I have stumbled across this forum when trying to do some research and wonder if anyone can help me please?
Over the last year my daughter who has just turned 5 has developed a fear of newspapers. It started off with her asking for it to be removed from dining table before she would sit because she didn't like the smell to tonight she went into total meltdown because shouted her into a room where I was reading one. She ran away downstairs screaming and shaking and by the time I got to her was in floods of tears.
Its not put on or tantrum she is genuinely terrified and I don't know what to do about it. She starts school next week and is likely to encounter newspapers there too.
There is not much online other than it may or may not be called chloephobia and a woman was in the paper who had it.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thank you
Amanda
Over the last year my daughter who has just turned 5 has developed a fear of newspapers. It started off with her asking for it to be removed from dining table before she would sit because she didn't like the smell to tonight she went into total meltdown because shouted her into a room where I was reading one. She ran away downstairs screaming and shaking and by the time I got to her was in floods of tears.
Its not put on or tantrum she is genuinely terrified and I don't know what to do about it. She starts school next week and is likely to encounter newspapers there too.
There is not much online other than it may or may not be called chloephobia and a woman was in the paper who had it.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thank you
Amanda