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Isaac has a fear of tigers that has become a regular topic of conversation.  He’s afraid to go out at night for fear that tigers will get him.  Around Christmas time, my mother made all three kids a pair of tiger pajama pants to wear.  Isaac refused to wear the pants because he was afraid of them.  One day I convinced him to try them on.  He put them on ran around the house growling like a tiger and then took them off saying that they were too scary.  I regularly try to convince him to try them on again and each time he refuses.  Last night Charlotte and Nicole were wearing their tiger pajamas and I convinced Isaac that if he put his on, then the tigers would say “he’s not a boy, he’s a tiger—we don’t want to eat him.”  As soon as he had the pants on, he immediately covered them up with a blanket so that he wouldn’t be scared by them.  When he woke up this morning he changed out of them before coming to breakfast and yelled from the hallway that he was too afraid to come into the kitchen because he was scared of Charlotte in her tiger pants.  The picture is from last night when he was covering up his pants.