[Jayson_M]

I had not seen the videos with bear! Somehow they floated under my radar, but I just watched them and they are perfect for my situation! THANK YOU! I have tried a similar approach but as you say, it is very hard to get children to stand still and train with you with a dog barking at them because they get scared and either run which makes the issue worse, or they are fearful and don’t trust that the dog can’t reach them while on the leash and just throw the treats at him instead of calmly holding them. I have found a few brave souls that will hold their hand still at the park etc, but the majority of children are not this brave that I come across understandably.
That is definitely the approach I will start taking with Jasper. I think I have a friend with a daughter who is pretty fearless that I will start working with soon, but I wonder what Robert’s advice on doing this is you don’t have children to work with. I even thought about buying some big crazy masks/inflatables/costumes to have older friends wear (which I’m sure Jasper would more than likely be freaked out by) and get him comfortable with those situations in hope that treating the general anxiety of “scary things not being bad”, would roll over into how he approaches children too?
Either way, It will be a slow, long path ahead and I look forward to using his advice in the video to let him be a bit more comfortable in the future and nip this problem in the butt instead of children.

Thank you so much for the recommendation!