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Into the desert night ... developmentally speaking, three-four year olds are afraid of the dark.Tow little boys running through a gate out into a field into the desert night -
They would be talking and laughing which would echo on a desert night. They would have been easy tracked if it was "just a second ago."
Didn't happen.
Preschooler: 3-4 years
The Dark: After years of sleeping soundly in the dimmest of rooms, your kiddo can suddenly become petrified of shadows in her bedroom or start crying that it’s “too dark” in there. She is scanning her environment all of the time to take note of what she sees and make sense of what’s around her, says Dr. Huebner, so the dark is especially hard because she can’t see much at all. Your child’s burgeoning imagination also plays a role: “Kids hear a noise or see a shadow and think, ‘What’s that?!’ They might imagine it’s a monster, or a tiger.”
The Age-by-Age Guide to Kid Fears