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From: ayers@convexs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: 2-year-old afraid of rain.
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 13:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 13:04:00 1985
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> Our neighbor's two-year-old boy has recently become very afraid of rain,
> to thepoint that he screams every time it rains even lightly.
> The presumed cause (according to his mother)
> is several recent violent thunderstorms, but the fear
> extends to non-violent storms, as well.
> 
> None of my three kids has ever had such a problem, so we
> couldn't offer any counsel.
> 
> Now I turn to a wider audience.  Any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 	John T. Burgess, Jr.

>>Is the child hydrophobic? Is it a general fear of water?
>>Is the child afraid of snow and other forms of precipitation?

Are the neighbors into rubber?  Do they wear swastikas? 
Is the child forced to run around the neighborhood naked while 
being beaten with a running garden hose?  Do we have too little
information to answer this reasonably?


					blues, II

	(I may not be wrong, but by _God_, I'll bet I'm not far from it!)