Running scared

Help children handle their fears with advice from Cathy Troupp, child psychotherapist based at the Anna Freud Centre in London We all have fears, and mostly we live with them and around them. Among my friends and family are people who are afraid of, or at least very anxious about, spiders and snakes, lifts, bridges, the London Underground, taxis, security and fire alarms, heights, flying, cheese and tofu, mushrooms...