u/purplepeacock24

My son is six years old and has progressively gotten worse towards Halloween decorations. He used to be able to walk through Spirit, head turned or hiding behind a parent, but he was able to walk through the store after getting past the initial entrance. This year though I had to carry him while he cried until we got over to the kids costume section. He won’t even use our stairwell because our downstairs neighbor has a Halloween mask decoration hanging on their door so he uses the next stairwell over to avoid it.

I cannot see how he will be able to do Halloween or trick or treating this year when his reaction is this severe. Last year he struggled with certain houses because of their decorations and because of that I’m already anticipating this year to be even worse.

My partner wears horror merch(ghostface, art the clown, etc) and he’s been fine with those but then the ghostface door decoration next to his grandmas apartment he hides from and won’t look.

We’ve tried reassuring him, we’ve tried talking and explaining it, we’ve tried videos with no sound. I’m at a loss. I don’t know what to do or how to help him. It’s at the point where we have told him that if he is too scared of the decorations then we can’t go trick or treating this year. I hate that. I want him to be able to have fun and not miss out on Halloween stuff just because he’s scared. When asked why he’s scared or what makes it scary he doesn’t give an answer and just says because it is or because he’s scared. What can we do? Anything to help him understand or to help him overcome his fear???

My son is six years old and has progressively gotten worse towards Halloween decorations. He used to be able to walk through Spirit, head turned or hiding behind a parent, but he was able to walk through the store after getting past the initial entrance. This year though I had to carry him while he cried until we got over to the kids costume section. He won’t even use our stairwell because our downstairs neighbor has a Halloween mask decoration hanging on their door so he uses the next stairwell over to avoid it.

I cannot see how he will be able to do Halloween or trick or treating this year when his reaction is this severe. Last year he struggled with certain houses because of their decorations and because of that I’m already anticipating this year to be even worse.

My partner wears horror merch(ghostface, art the clown, etc) and he’s been fine with those but then the ghostface door decoration next to his grandmas apartment he hides from and won’t look.

We’ve tried reassuring him, we’ve tried talking and explaining it, we’ve tried videos with no sound. I’m at a loss. I don’t know what to do or how to help him. It’s at the point where we have told him that if he is too scared of the decorations then we can’t go trick or treating this year. I hate that. I want him to be able to have fun and not miss out on Halloween stuff just because he’s scared. When asked why he’s scared or what makes it scary he doesn’t give an answer and just says because it is or because he’s scared. What can we do? Anything to help him understand or to help him overcome his fear???

My son is six years old and has progressively gotten worse towards Halloween decorations. He used to be able to walk through Spirit, head turned or hiding behind a parent, but he was able to walk through the store after getting past the initial entrance. This year though I had to carry him while he cried until we got over to the kids costume section. He won’t even use our stairwell because our downstairs neighbor has a Halloween mask decoration hanging on their door so he uses the next stairwell over to avoid it.

I cannot see how he will be able to do Halloween or trick or treating this year when his reaction is this severe. Last year he struggled with certain houses because of their decorations and because of that I’m already anticipating this year to be even worse.

My partner wears horror merch(ghostface, art the clown, etc) and he’s been fine with those but then the ghostface door decoration next to his grandmas apartment he hides from and won’t look.

We’ve tried reassuring him, we’ve tried talking and explaining it, we’ve tried videos with no sound. I’m at a loss. I don’t know what to do or how to help him. It’s at the point where we have told him that if he is too scared of the decorations then we can’t go trick or treating this year. I hate that. I want him to be able to have fun and not miss out on Halloween stuff just because he’s scared. When asked why he’s scared or what makes it scary he doesn’t give an answer and just says because it is or because he’s scared. What can we do? Anything to help him understand or to help him overcome his fear???

My son is six years old and has progressively gotten worse towards Halloween decorations. He used to be able to walk through Spirit, head turned or hiding behind a parent, but he was able to walk through the store after getting past the initial entrance. This year though I had to carry him while he cried until we got over to the kids costume section. He won’t even use our stairwell because our downstairs neighbor has a Halloween mask decoration hanging on their door so he uses the next stairwell over to avoid it.

I cannot see how he will be able to do Halloween or trick or treating this year when his reaction is this severe. Last year he struggled with certain houses because of their decorations and because of that I’m already anticipating this year to be even worse.

My partner wears horror merch(ghostface, art the clown, etc) and he’s been fine with those but then the ghostface door decoration next to his grandmas apartment he hides from and won’t look.

We’ve tried reassuring him, we’ve tried talking and explaining it, we’ve tried videos with no sound. I’m at a loss. I don’t know what to do or how to help him. It’s at the point where we have told him that if he is too scared of the decorations then we can’t go trick or treating this year. I hate that. I want him to be able to have fun and not miss out on Halloween stuff just because he’s scared. When asked why he’s scared or what makes it scary he doesn’t give an answer and just says because it is or because he’s scared. What can we do? Anything to help him understand or to help him overcome his fear???