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Fear of Vacation
We have a 5 year old daughter who has never been afraid of anything. Over Spring Break we went to the beach and had a great time. On the way back, however, she started crying and crying because she missed home. We chalked it up to her being over tired. Well, we are going to Disney World in June, like we do EVERY year (she has been 3 times already and loves everything about it). A couple weeks ago she started periodicly saying that she didn't want to go on the Tower of Terror (which she never has gone on before anyway). So, we said OK, of course. Well, she kept bringing it up every once and a while. Today she was in the shower and playing with her dolls and suddenly called us in there. She was crying and saying she didn't want to do to Disney World because she didn't want to miss our home. We tried to talk to her about it, look at old pictures, videos, etc. She remembered how fun it was and said she wanted to go. But then later on she started saying again that she would miss home and her friends and didn't want to go. We tried reassuring her (we'll call them every night, our neighbors will watch the house, etc), but nothing is working. She has very well-thought out reasons for not wanting to go. HELP! We don't know what to do. We obviously don't want to go all that way and spend all that money to have her breakdown when we are there. What do we do?!
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Anxiety
> 60 days ago
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