Is or was your child scared of toys mine son is.....

My son is 1 and he got an elmo tmx for christmas and it terrified him at first. but now he loves it. its pretty funny to see him get scared of a doll. lol

just keep the toys in his room without activating them so that he gets used to their presence and finds for himself that they are harmless,

Yes it seems it is the movement of the toys which makes your child nervous and he gets scared. May be after 5 years when he himself will run and jump them he might like their company.

My four year old daughter is completely frightened of anything that talks. For instance at a resturant my dad took us too, they had a large buffalo head that started singing when you walked by. It freaked her out so much that we had to sneak her down the back stairs because she would not walk past it to get the actual sitting area of the resturant. At halloween esp. we have to avoid the entire area at the store were they sell the decorations because she has been known to go screaming off through the store.

I can't remember my kids being afraid of any toys but my youngest sister was terrified of plastic bugs and spiders. When she was about 3 my mom could not keep her out of the drawer in the sewing machine that held all her spools of thread. So my mom put a big black rubber spider in the drawer. She opened that drawer only 1 more time...screamed...and never opened it again.

My son was never afraid of a toy but he was terrified of Bubble gum!! The minute he saw anyone blow a bubble he would either run and hide or cry unconrollably! My husband thought it was funny to torture the poor boy with his gum! He's ok with it now. I had to let him pop my bubbles and kind of get the feel of the gum. He must have thought thati was blowing my tongue up or somthing. LOL!!

When my now 3yr old was 18months I bought he rthis ball that rolled arround on its own and made noise. It also had buttons on it that you could push to make it make diffrent noises. It was age appropriate but when we first got it she was afraid of it. Now she loves it and plays with it all the time.

yes i had this problem with my son also when he was younger.. he still throws a fit about some of his toys from time to time, however now i can tell that he is upset because the toy isnt doing exactly what he wants it to do!

hahaha my brother was scared of alf the alien tv show alf and when there was like bunches of hair of dust bunny's i would pick them up and say EWWWWWWWWWW alfie and he would run a cry..

Yeah My sons was like that too. He was really scared of toy which was a bug that flutters around with a music when it moves. Even now when he takes that toy is bit reluctant at first. My duaghter initially fears of any toy that moves, but after few minutes she gets settled.

I don't know if you've heard of that cartoon that used to be on the Nickelodeon channel a few years back called the Rugrats? Anyhow they were the cutest little cartoon babies that would go on all these adventures. My daughter used to like watching them when she was 3 years old. She really lke the one character named Tommy. For Christmas that year my husband and I got her a Talking sing Tommy doll thinking she would be thrilled about it. She was for about the first 2 minutes until we showed her he could talk. The second she heard that she went screaming out of the room and wouldn't come anywhere near the doll. We tried to explain how it worked and tried to tell her not to be afraid but she'd have nothing to do with it. I kept it in our bedroom and when she saw that she wouldn't even go in our room because she said she was afraid of "the guy" as she called it. Needless to say I had to put the doll in our closet and keep it out of her sight before she'd even go back into our room.lol!

My #3 son has been terrified of one of his brother's toy for months. It's the Cookie Monster in a chicken suit that dances around and sings the chicken dance. Any time it starts he grabs it and runs around the room trying to hand it off to someone. When someone does take it from him he runs off and hides until it stops. This is the same little boy that was terrified of his new baby brother too!

oh your post made me laugh. children are so fickle, aren't they? i suggest selling it on ebay or craigslist. or you can donate it somewhere. thanks for brightening up my day.

I am making a guess here.. could it be that he is scared of the sudden and abrupt jerking movements of the 2 toys? I think you need to take this matter seriously enough as even this seemingly innocent incident might cause a phobia in him when he grows up. One way may be to slowly "warm" him to sudden movement. Take a simple example. You make a star by releasing a clenched fist. You can do it fast or you can do it slow. Start slow, then make it faster the next time, and then even faster. Let Ben get used to different kinds of abrupt movements and you may find that he is no longer scared of those 2 toys. Just my thought.

A friend of mine used to have the same problem when she came to my house with her son. My children had a toy dog which barked and jumped around and he always freaked out when this toy was turned on. My children loved it but he certainly didn't :)

Someone bought my son this spiderman doll that sings the itsy bitsy spiderman. He's fine with it until the end of the song, it sounds like a child laughing, it's very freaking weird! He cries when it laughs. He's also afraid of toy cars that have a police siren or if they have some loud engine sound. My nephew has a lot of these and when he brings them out, he runs away screaming.