No. 1 Fear

The fear of public speaking is known as the most common fear in the world. Research revealed that it is ranked as the No. 1 fear, above the fear of death.

This is the reason why we got J to crush this kind of fear as soon as possible before he learns the fear of public speaking from schools/workplace.

The privilege of homeschooling is that we can have a closer view of the child's growing up years so that we can reduce the exposure and eliminate the sources of fear.

As we congratulated him last night for the completion of a 1-year course, he said, "I don't have any fear of public speaking."

It is our role as parents to help our child crush every fear along the way. The only fear must be the fear of God.

Fear is not inborn. Fear is always learnt. It is learnt from upbringing, modeling the parents' own fears, picking up from the environment/friends and circumstances.

Faith is inborn. But faith must overcome fear. Since faith works through Love and Love casts out fear, each time we demonstrate love to the child in the particular area he has fear in, we crush that fear.