By its very nature, every living creature capable of experiencing fear. Is no exception, and people. However, our attitude to this feeling of duality. On the one hand, a conscious attitude of fear manifests itself in an effort to maintain the safest possible existence and possible, to avoid adverse situations that may be the source of this feeling, on the other hand, we feel a kind of coming from the fear of sinister charm. Reading a crime novel or watching a horror movie is accompanied by a pleasant tickling nerves. If there is no real danger of experiencing fear gives us pleasure. It is pleasure associated with the experience of fear, pushing children to choose as a place for skating street, abruptly come down and make it fun dangerous, it's the same feeling compels children to climb the trees or to shower each other's threats. The danger draws primarily boys.

When a verbal description of their fears teenagers tend to avoid anything that is considered reprehensible in their environment and that diverges from the views of their parents. Most of their painful experiences they hide, and often share only a small fraction of their fears. Their comments mirror those related to fear their surroundings, and least of all directly express emotions, own them in real life. They are extraordinarily difficult to share their innermost fears and yet because they do not know their rational reasons. They realize their full groundless fear: a construction worker on the square in front of the school not to drag them into the hatch, a doctor, make them X-ray, it finds they have anything that causes concern - and yet they can not get rid of the pressing, unpleasant sensation.

Fears of children and adolescents may have deeper roots. What is the root of these fears? To answer this question, we turn to the lifestyles of cultures that remain outside the scope of European civilization. According to the descriptions of Van Gennep and Joseph Campbell, in many cultures, the transition from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood, is being heralded by special rituals. To move to the next phase of life the child is required to withstand the tests. For example, among the Indians of Omaha children over the age of four, are a kind of ceremony, which aims to fix that now they are no longer considered young children and receive the right to wear sandals.

During the ceremony, they cut their hair, and then forced to walk a straight line from one point to another. Their every step is accompanied by the singing of songs, specially designed for this case. Judging by what they write Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flash, this ritual involves children with a strong fear. Their fear is rooted in uncertainty about whether they are capable of withstanding the test. Deviation from the prescribed line is considered a bad omen. In other such ceremonies, known as rites of initiation, the right to call adults is acquired through the agonizing and painful procedures.

In Aboriginal Arnheym-Land in northern Australia prior to initiation into the mysteries of his tribe initiated to lie for hours under the scorching sun, bringing a nearly dried-up state mummy. All of these initiation ceremonies are connected with terror. Children have fears and learn to overcome it. The task of pedagogy - to create rituals that help children learn to cope with their fears. This problem mainly concerns young children. As a rule, they are almost not able to develop their own scenario of contact with their personal fears, as we orient them to our own fears, with a clear emphasis on transport, health, and to a specific threat.

They adapt to our way of harm in response to our request to avoid the real dangers. Ceremony in which children can meet with their own fears and put them into a form that is adequate to their age, are absent. We have very little ado, allow together through fear. Fear as a joint experience removed from all walks of life except, perhaps television. The idea of "carefree" childhood prompts us to conceal their fears from children to avoid sharing them. We do not have a ritual that helps to survive and overcome fears, owe their origin to a particular age. Instead, we require children to adapt to our vision of the world. The consequence of this is the desire of children to find their own feelings of fear scenarios, which they do not tell anyone. What they conceal their fears may prevent them from them free (is fraught with danger of stagnation). The conflict displaced, and the problem remains unresolved (call element remains unanswered).