Many children, when meeting medical workers, experience real horror. However, no parents’ persuasion helps. Having entered the office, they begin to cry already in advance, even before the start of medical manipulations. Why are the children so panicky afraid of doctors, and how parents can cope with this problem?
What if the child is afraid of doctors
The main reason for the fear of doctors is the fear of everything unknown. Due to the fact that the child does not know what he is at the reception, he can fill this gap of information with fantasies frightening him. But he is absolutely not to blame for this, because even adults often feel anxiety before all unknown and incomprehensible to them. It is best in this case to tell the child in detail in an accessible form for him about how the upcoming procedure will take place, what tools the doctor will use, and why all this is needed. Explaining, select words depending on the age of the child. It will also help very much if you show him this process on toys. To do this, you should definitely buy a toy set of a doctor with various medical instruments. All this will significantly reduce his fears.
What if the child is afraid of doctors
Moreover, the child needs to tell about the upcoming visit to the medical institution in advance so that this is not unexpected for him, and he has already somehow begun to put up with this.
As a result of such preparation, he will receive a pretty complete impression of what awaits him outside the doors of the medical office.
Usually the child asks if he will be painful during the procedure. The main thing here is by no means to deceive him and not say that there will be no pain, because he can generally stop trusting you after that. If you know that the child will be a little painful and unpleasant, you need to warn him about it. But immediately reassure him that it will only hurt a little, and therefore everything will pass very quickly.
Sometimes, before going to the doctor, some children may have another fear – this is a fear of being a coward in front of parents. And as a result of which there is a fear of the fact that adults will laugh at him or even punish him for such an unworthy behavior. To avoid this, you never need to shame and blame the child for being scared or cried during the reception.
Moreover, very often the fears of the child are stimulated by the fears of the parents themselves, because all this is easily transmitted to him. It must be remembered that children will never be able to cope with their experiences until their parents cease to be afraid.
Most often, the fears of adults are that they are very afraid for the health and condition of their child.
Also, parental fear can be associated with fear of being cruel in the eyes of the child due to the fact that he subjects him to this painful procedure.
Often in such cases, adults shift the guilt of the doctors, accusing them of everything that happened, because it was they who made the child something unpleasant. Due to this position of an adult, medical workers can become even greater enemies in the eyes of a small child. He can even decide that they specifically want to hurt him. Therefore, parents need to avoid such accusations and not be afraid that for this the child will fall in love with them.
The main thing is to remember that children will never cope with their fears, while their parents continue to be afraid. And therefore, adults also need to get rid of all their unrest and experiences. You need to be calm. And during the reception, be it necessary to go to the office with the child in order to support him so difficult for him.