To identify the different things that make children feel scared. It is important for children to link the experience with the emotion. This also creates awareness that we don’t all feel afraid about the same things. There may be things that are similar but there may also be things that are different. Everybody is different and there is no right or wrong when it comes to feelings. Hearing that other children share their fears, normalizes the feeling and creates a sense of not being alone in that fear. For other children, hearing that others are not scared of something they are afraid of, could reduce the intensity of the fear, realizing it might not be as bad as they imagined.
