“Please come

upstairs with

me.”

The kids like to hang out downstairs where I am, unless I MAKE them go play together upstairs.  They are ALL scared to go up there by themselves.  As long as they have someone else with them, they’re good.  There is a fight about it everyday, “PLEASE come upstairs, with me.  I always go with YOU when you ask me.”  The other day Isaac asked Kallie to go up with him and she said, “You don’t have to be scared to go up there Isaac, ‘cause Jesus is always with us.”

It doesn’t matter what house we’ve been in or what floor plan we’ve had, they have always been scared of one part of the house.  We thought with the last house we built, that the kids would love the upstairs with the big McDonalds tube slide going down from their room to the toy room below.  We had their rooms decorated in cute butterfly and pirate themes.  And Jaidyn and Kallie were even sharing a room.  It didn’t matter.  The kids were still scared to go down… even down the slide by themselves and only went upstairs if someone went with them.  It is the same in THIS house.  They each have their own rooms right next to each other upstairs and a huge game room full of toys.  What’s scary about that?

Any suggestions on helping them not be scared?