is mother didn't know the real reason why he didn't want to go to bed when he was left alone in the dark bedroom belay became frightened he didn't understand about fear but fear is a natural thing nothing to be ashamed of and that there's a way to go about getting over some fears so you never told his mother refused to climb up even if it wasn't there and the janitor got the ball for you the same being afraid of climbing up the world was your warning that it was very dangerous and that you might be hurt to show good common sense when you paid attention that warning and you don't have to be ashamed of it being afraid was nature's way of getting you to avoid something dangerous but now there's something else about fear that i don't think you quite understand billy what  sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous sometimes you think things are dangerous when they're not sometimes you and most other people grow afraid even when they know there's nothing dangerous can you think of anything like that billy  lewis used to be afraid of dogs even when they were friendly she was so scared she crossed the street when she saw one but that's a great example of exactly what i mean i found out when they are playing this crappy you know mr rogers  she had to be afraid of the dog is one of her is that you mean that's just what i mean and you remember how freaky talk more about learning to swim that's right here is scared to go near the water yes keith was afraid of something that wouldn't hurt him too and there's another kind of being afraid when there's no real danger that's being afraid of what people might think specially your parents together a few months ago and mrs campbell boney after dinner rang out in the infant school they were waiting dinner for him and poor mrs campbell did not the thing well you know what happened they found frank down in the basement giving birth cards and bad grades on it and he was afraid of what his mother and father would think maybe even that they'd stop blaming him of course he found out that he shouldn't have been afraid that his parents would go on loving him no matter what grades he made so you can see what i mean when i say there was no real danger there there are many things that people are afraid of when there's really no danger things like fear of being laughed at because their clothes are different or because their marks aren't as good as they might be they're afraid for all sorts of foolish reasons but before your eyes praise something like dogs what can you do about it well each time you're afraid try to understand whether there's really something to be afraid don't know if you're afraid when there's real danger you can learn ways of protecting yourself here at the right time will make you careful fear and rise actions such as their took such as you took when you wouldn't come up that was all you can be proud  playing with the dog and that the dog didn't hurt you if you could know from that that there was nothing to be afraid of that's right so it can't be needed to do was to try to understand why she was afraid of dogs maybe don't getting to know some dogs would have helped her get over her fears  that's what she didn't do understand the thing you're afraid of yes he's got over his fear of the water by taking swimming lessons with a teacher he trusted and believed in yeah you can swim pretty well out there is another thing you can do to help yourself get over a fear when there's no real danger about his fear that they might stop loving him if the report card wasn't good it would have been better for the most girls whose parents didn't realize they felt that way perhaps they expected too much of friends and it may sound funny frank's graber bad partly because of his fear of his parents he was afraid he couldn't make good talking it almost certainly made a big difference in the camp it helped out of them understand each other better as they talked over his work and work habits and what they expected of him and got over his spear of making poor grades and of not doing well enough to please his father and mother he's doing much better in school now isn't it yeah it does help a lot to away you have my word that will never go away without telling you and of course we never leave you alone either way or someone else will always be where you can call our body ready for sleep now   right darling the night billy to stop worrying about his own fears and when he remembers that some people are afraid when there's no real danger does that make it easier for belay to understand some of his own fears billy refused to climb the drain guy because it looked dangerous yet at the same time he had another clear he was afraid he might be called a coward by his friend he had to decide which was the real fear do you think he decided correctly and do you think that the story of frank's being afraid of what his parents might think of billy understand his own fears better did it help billy to talk over his fears with his mother but do you think