Monsters....what do you tell them??

[beckoes]

Not what do you tell the monsters....what do you tell your little ones about monsters??

DD is almost three, doesnt watch scary shows, infact doesnt watch alot of tv really, doesnt really hang out with alot of other kids/older sibings to tell her about monsters and it not something ive ever bought up.....how do kids even know about monsters?

She askes me every day about monsters, apparently they have big teeth and fire on tjhier bodies..,.,.ive tried telling they dont exist...that our house is safe etc...that there are only friendly monsters...but every night she asks me the scary monster is still there.

what do you say to yours????

[AnyDream]

I say "there's no such thing as monsters. They are only pretend." It turns out DD was scared because she has a nightlight that changes colour so it looks like the shadows in her bedroom are moving. A change of lamp quickly fixed that.

[Teeki]

When I was a kid, my big thing wasn't monsters, there was a witch under my bed. It terrified me because I always woke up in the middle of the night needing to pee and was too scared to step on the floor because the witch would reach out and get me!

Mum and Dad telling me witches weren't real didn't make a scrap of difference. When you wake up in the dark, alone, it's still scary. A night light didn't make much difference. The one thing that did work, is when he put me to bed at night, Dad would vacuum under my bed. I dunno, I must've thought he was sucking up the witch! I was fine everytime he did that

With my brother he got night terrors after watching Home Alone - he always thought someone was coming through his window, and every night he'd pelt up the hall into Mum & Dad's bed screaming. That took longer to get over, but Dad got him to help put new locks and stuff on the windows to show him no one could get in.

Good luck with your DD and her monsters!

[beckoes]

When I was a kid, my big thing wasn't monsters, there was a witch under my bed. It terrified me because I always woke up in the middle of the night needing to pee and was too scared to step on the floor because the witch would reach out and get me!

Mum and Dad telling me witches weren't real didn't make a scrap of difference. When you wake up in the dark, alone, it's still scary. A night light didn't make much difference. The one thing that did work, is when he put me to bed at night, Dad would vacuum under my bed. I dunno, I must've thought he was sucking up the witch! I was fine everytime he did that

With my brother he got night terrors after watching Home Alone - he always thought someone was coming through his window, and every night he'd pelt up the hall into Mum & Dad's bed screaming. That took longer to get over, but Dad got him to help put new locks and stuff on the windows to show him no one could get in.

Good luck with your DD and her monsters!

your dad sounds awesome....vacuming under your bed every night!! cute!

Ive tried the whole they arnt really, just in stories thing....she litterally laughed at me and told me i was wrong. she has a little orange light but it just sheds enough light to make it not pitch black, but she didnt like the other lights we tried...all too bright apparently.

she draws monsters quite often. and we end up talking about them atleast twice a day...if not more! i have to admit im a little worried.....although im sure its normal.

[Cranky Kitten]

Going to sound weird, but around the same time DD started fretting about monsters, Monsters Inc had just come out - we sat down and watched it with her, and then she started poking her head under the bed and going "BOO!!" to scare the monsters away before bedtime

Don't know what I would've done otherwise, I have to admit.

[beckoes]

Going to sound weird, but around the same time DD started fretting about monsters, Monsters Inc had just come out - we sat down and watched it with her, and then she started poking her head under the bed and going "BOO!!" to scare the monsters away before bedtime

Don't know what I would've done otherwise, I have to admit.

maybe i should try that

[Cranky Kitten]

It is a lovely movie and still one of DD's faves, nearly 6 years later

**feels old now**

[kelebek]

DS is 3 and the scary monsters hang about his light.

We've had lot's of discussions about them monsters. I ask him if they are scary monsters or friendly monsters, if he says he hasn't asked I tell him to ask and if they are scary monsters that he can tell them to go away and that they have to. That monsters can only stay if they have his permission. If they are friendly monsters then they can stay cause they look after him and help protect him from the scary monsters.

Sometimes I go in with the water spray bottle and pretend it has special potion in it so they can't come around, other times I get him to visualise that he is surrounded by white light and that means there is no room for scary monsters... whatever works