Not Afraid of the Dark (for now)
My three year old recently proclaimed he is no longer afraid of the dark. How did that happen? Well, for one thing we didn’t make him get over his fear. Rather we empathized with how he was still getting used to the dark. Then one day, I’ll be honest I didn’t want to get up and turn on a light for him in the bathroom when he wanted a drink of water (even though he had a cup of water in his lit room already.) I told him that the hall light was on and to stand in the hall
