How Did You Respond to Your Daughter's Fear of Bugs?

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Tracy Johnson: My daughter Nandani was a girl who loved being out in nature. She had taken part in these eco science camps where she just had bugs crawling over her all the time. And now here we are in the pandemic and all of a sudden she's expressing a lot of concerns, anxieties about flies and ladybug were her bugaboos. I decided to expose her to this fear of bugs and we'll work through it and I'm going to be a great parent; so I closed the door and locked it.

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