Hello and

every week I'll help you meet life's

Dr. Ellen Hendrickson and every week I'll help you meet lives challenges

with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment.

So today we'll do the second of two parts in a series on kid fears in grown-ups.

Last week we talked about separation anxiety, which affects more than one in 15 adults,

but no one ever seems to talk about it. This week, as kids, most of us were

afraid of dogs, clowns, or things that go bump in the night, but for a lot of us,

childhood fears never wore off and that's not just

inconvenient it's potentially embarrassing thankfully phobias are some of the

easiest fears to vanquish.

Now, anyone who's ever been a kid, which means all of us,

with the possible exception of oddly ageless celebrities like Cher,

remembers their childhood fears.

So what was it for you?

Maybe you were afraid of your closet, thunderstorms, or the neighbor down the street

who was so old he might still owe Fred Flintstone a few bucks. For me, I distinctly remember going to the

circus as a small child and bursting into tears when approached by a clown. He wasn't exactly

Stephen King's it, but I think my fear still made sense.

When we're little and already wary of strangers, why would we giggle with delight at the strangest

looking stranger we've ever seen.

Okay, so thankfully, our childhood fears go the way of our favorite blankies.

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