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Fear of flying

NAS64645

Hi 

my 11 year old son has an extreme fear of flying but we have a wedding to attend abroad. He has travelled by plane when he was younger and had a meltdown before boarding but we managed to calm him to get him in the plane. We didn’t fly for several years hoping his fear would disappear but it hasn’t. Now he’s older I don’t think we would be able to calm and distract him as easily and he sometimes runs away when anxious. Any ideas on how we can get him to see flying in a different way and how do airport staff handle older children having a meltdown would they still let us fly? We couldn’t go without him but don’t want to miss the wedding but he is set against flying

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  • There are some things my son finds difficult. For example he enjoys sport, but last year when he had his first sports day at the town's sports field ( previous ones did not happen due to COVID), when he got there he froze and could not get out of the car so ended up coming home. He won't be going this year, even if he went in with friends as he can't face it.

    With this experience, if we were invited to a wedding and he couldn't face the journey we wouldn't be going. We did go to my father's funeral which involved a long journey by car and staying in a hotel. Unfortunately we couldn't miss this as I am an only child. My advice would be if flying is the only option, to consider how important the wedding is, for example do you want to go or do you need to go?

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  • There are some things my son finds difficult. For example he enjoys sport, but last year when he had his first sports day at the town's sports field ( previous ones did not happen due to COVID), when he got there he froze and could not get out of the car so ended up coming home. He won't be going this year, even if he went in with friends as he can't face it.

    With this experience, if we were invited to a wedding and he couldn't face the journey we wouldn't be going. We did go to my father's funeral which involved a long journey by car and staying in a hotel. Unfortunately we couldn't miss this as I am an only child. My advice would be if flying is the only option, to consider how important the wedding is, for example do you want to go or do you need to go?

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