Oh and I forgot a really great one - if your child is really scared of monsters, and keep on getting upset every night, get a $1 water sprayer and print a picture of a monster to stick on it, and then fill it with water and maybe a few drops of lemon or euculyptus (so they don't suck it) and say it's monster spray (keep it up high if you don't trust them not to drink it...). Then you spray it under the beds and in their closets to get rid of the monsters! Just like fly spray!
I used to do something similar for my kids, who were convinced there were monsters that came into their room from under their door and hid under their beds. I used to get carpet sprinkles, and add glitter and confetti, and I covered the container in contact, and I would sprinkle the "monster sprinkles" outside their door, and under their beds... I told the kids that when the monsters touched the monster sprinkles, they turned into dust, and we could vacuum them up and they would disappear forever. The kids would even bring the vacuum to me in the mornings and sometimes they would vacuum up the monsters themselves. My DS1 is now 14, and remembers it clearly and thinks it is cool that I used to do that... he wants to be able to put "monster sprinkles" down for Harrison if he ever gets scared of monsters.