"When your child feels scared, protect immediately". Which may not be easy... as a dad I had one case of preschool aged son being scared. I took him for a walk in a little forest few minutes walking from our home, and there I had a stupid idea to check where a jeep trail is going. The trail turned into a path, the path into a narrow path, and somehow we landed in a thicket of hawthorns, little trees with 2 inch (5 cm) sharp thorns. Because we heard traffic from a major street, I decided to go in that direction. With wicked thorns around us. I carried my son, so he got only a few scratches, "just a flesh wound", he was pale with wide eyes, and I am sorry to say, the rescue was not immediate...