Scared of Thunder

My son is afraid of the thunder and lightning .If he is outside playing an he hear the thunder are the lightning he would run inside quickly an started to cry .Some i would laugh at him,because he would start to ask silly question about where the thunder comes an why is it so loud. as they grow they wont be afraid of no but what you can do is to try an keep them inside.I know how you feel at one point i was basically have to hold my son in my arms.they will get over it soon though.

Although not all kids are scared of thunder, what I would do would sit my child down and explain to him what thunder is. Thunder is nothing more than clouds basically. He might not understand about the gases of the clouds, but you could say that it's just clouds hitting one another. Say, it's nothing to be afraid of. It cannot hurt you, it's only loud. Tell him that it's amazing that clouds can make that noise. And maybe tell him, when you play and bang things, thats like the clouds making thunder. Sometimes a good talk could help. But at any rate, they all grow out of it at some point.

I loved thunder and lightening as a child. We used to spend a month every year in Northern Italy on the Italian Riviera close to Genoa. The mountains were behind us and the sea in front (unless you faced the other way in which case it was reversed). My sister and I used to make up stories about the Gods heading out to sea to sink pirate ships. As the rain fell we would say that a God was crying because he couldn't run as fast as the others and was being left behind. OK, so we were weird children.... The point that I am making is that maybe if you distract him by having him make up stories about the noise etc etc then perhaps he might come to terms with it all. Just an idea.

hi greenmoo both of my children had loved thunderstorms and I am the adult one who cringes but never let my kids know that. now my adult son loves to watch thunder storms.Our pets hated them specially our dog as he would hide under the bed and sometimes I wished I c ould crawl under there with him.lol I think the only thing you can do is reassure him that nothing bad will happen to him and you will not let anything happen as its must a storm.

no its the lightening i don't like.

When i was a kid, i also was very scared of thunder and lightening, i didnt even can go to WC (of course i went there, but i was so scared) and to other rooms alone i wanted that someone is with me then i felt safer. And now im still scared of thunder and lightening but not sooo much, im very scared when its close to me. and im more scared when im home alone and thunder&lightening is close to me. Last year happened like that and i was crying from fears and called to someone who can take me away from home (and i have doggy and she was very scared too, i sat in bed and felt how she shaking) Only suggestion what i have is - dont scare your kid with stories when lightening strike in homes (my brothers used to tell stories like that and now im always scared that it will strike in our home)

That has been so long ago. . . My son was scared of Thunder. His dad would take him to the porch swing and hold him and they would watch the storms together. I guess I would say that no matter how upset he gets, you just need to act like it is nothing.

I used to be scared of it too. When I was little though I would go out into our porch and watch the lightening. I don't have any suggestions besides ear plugs....but maybe that wouldn't even help. My kids weren't afraid.

I'm sorry I don't have any experience with such things, the only thing I've been through is my dog being scared of thunder. But that gives me an idea--when he hears thunder (which sometimes I can't hear) he wants to go into the basement. He apparently knows that it is safe there from violent storms. Do you have a place your child can go where he or she feels safe? If you can't talk to the child about thunder, maybe they'll talk when they are in a place where they feel the thunder can't harm them.