Contagious Fears

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Why do we fear certain things and not others? Some fears are justifiable, bred from personal experiences, yet others seem to originate with no rational reason.

Could fears be contagious like viruses?

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Growing up in a family where women didn’t drive because all women were labeled as bad drivers to begin with, I used to have a fear of driving. Once I overcame that with practice, I still feared getting on the highway. I must have been subconsciously verbalizing this over and over, because once I finally overcame this obstacle and started driving everywhere, I heard my kids saying from the backseat, “Are we going on the highway?”, “Can we take the side roads?’. “Do we have to take the highway?’. I heard irrational fear in my son’s trembling voice. He’d ask the same question over and over even when my husband was driving.

And then it hit me, he picked up on my fear that was now long gone from my mind, and he adopted it as his own. I would ask him why he wanted to avoid the highway, but he’d have no explanation other than that he didn’t want to get on the highway. My son was living in fear of driving on highway with me because I passed on that fear on to him!

It’s been over a year that I have been driving on the highway with my kids in tow, and since they haven’t heard me complain, they stopped complaining as well.

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Fear of Milk?

I didn’t think about this incident until the other day when I sent my husband to get milk. We always by organic, but this time he stopped by Walgreen’s and picked up a non-organic brand.  My daughter heard my husband and I exchange a few words about the type of milk that was brought home. Afterwards, she came to me and asked me if the milk was organic. At first, I was confused, does she even know what organic means? She’s only 5 years old. Then she looked at me again with a concerned expression, “Mommy, can we drink it if it’s not organic? Can you go and buy organic?”.

And that’s when it hit me. We pass on our neurosis to our kids without even realizing. It’s important to face this because we don’t want our fear of roller coasters or driving to pass on to our children who we imagine to grow up to be brave adults.

Take a deep hard look at your fears and see where they come from. If you can’t figure it out, it could be a fear that was passed on from your parents. Don’t let it define who you are.

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