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Social Smarts
By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
Q: I am blessed with four wonderful fear even though you are an adult. Of
and healthy children ranging from an in-
fant through a seven year old. My three
younger children seem absolutely fearless
oldest seems to be scared of everything.
He won’t go into rooms without the light
light outside. He refuses to walk down a University in Pennsylvania outlines what
Birth to Two Years
monsters in his bed or the story his teach- Loud Noises: -
ers told him during parsha.
screaming can startle babies as young as
a few weeks old.
Stranger Anxiety
have started wondering – which fears are
normal and which are not? Is there a way
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in their lives. They tend to fear that those
that can be addressed. Just think about that are close to them will leave.
