ABSTRACT
Terror, whether in the literal form of night, terrors or the horrific effects of terrorism, attacks development at every stage; and the longer a child grows up in a climate of terror, the more developmental stages and tasks will be affected by it. Terror is indeed a terrifying thing. All children have some experience of terror, but these are within the normal confines of normal childhood. Terror, by its very nature, attacks individualization. Terror, in the case of both adults and children, dehumanizes. Children painted flowers on the box containing the mask and warned their parents not to forget the mask when they left the house; they treated their masks as an extension of the security their parents could give them. In a number of societies that are constantly exposed to violence, mothers describe their feelings about their children's exposure to violence and the ways in which they tried to handle the problem.
