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It is not only children, but adults, too. The root cause of a phobia is the fear, the definition of phobia, but it is because children do not know enough about the world, so instead of embracing and learning about it, they fear it, causing children to have phobias. It also may be due to past experiences that children have phobias, and those past experiences are fear-related.

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Some people have phobias because of a deeply seeded fear of something they know they shouldn't be afraid of and therefore cant explain or rationalise, examples of these are baked beans, pigeons and door knobs. The key to phobias is memory, every phobia comes from a bad memory relating to the specific phobia although mostly these occur early in life and are therefore forgotten.

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