My seven year old, Gina, is usually really imaginative and acts like a ten year old. One morning, after I picked her up from a friend's sleepover, she insisted monsters were real, because her friend Beth had on in her closet. As the mom I am, I said that monsters were not real and Beth was probably playing a joke. Gina insisted monsters were real, and i shrugged, thinking she was old enough to handle it alone. That night at around 10:40ish, she pounded on my door and yelled my name. My husband jumped up to get rescue instead of me, because I am expecting another daughter. He asked her what was wrong, and she said there was strange pounding in her closet. So he and Gina walked to get closet and opned the door. They found no monsters, but our cat Stinky. Later that night at 1:00 in the morning, she tiptoed in my bedroom and shook me awake. Than again, she insisted there was a monster in her closet, so I got up and walked with her to her bed. I opened the closet door, and found nothing there. I told her maybe the monster was a good monster from Monsters Inc, but she frowned and said friendly monsters didnt exist. Now my younger two are thinking there are monsters in their room. What should I do?
I have to agree with Julie. This sounds like the same 7 year who found her parents wrestling the other day.
If it's not, sorry.
Nightlights can be helpful.
Have you checked the closet for trolls?
Monster Spray worked for us.
I got a spray bottle from the dollar store and filled it with water and a little lavender essential oil. Sprayed it everywhere monsters could possibly hide in her room.
My son was a little younger than your daughter. I, too, was pregnant at the time but I would take a sawed off broom handle and "beat" the clothes in the closet to make sure all the monsters were gone. I would ask my son if they were gone or I would beat the clothes again. This lasted about a month or so and then things went back to normal and he would sleep well with the closet door closed.
Somewhere or somehow the "monsters" from whatever they were watching got into the sub-conscientious brain. Try your best to not go overboard with comments and rest while pregnant.
the other S.
She's 7 - she's not 3.
While I can understand her fears, I can't understand her pounding on your bedroom door in the middle of the night.
If I ever did anything like that to my Mom, a monster in the closet would've been the least of my worries - she's have spanked me and sent me back to bed.
If she's afraid to sleep in her room sometimes, maybe she can have a sleeping bag set up on the floor of a siblings room and she can go sleep there so she won't feel so alone.
Get her a night light.
Also explain to her during the day when she's calm that you're tired and you need your sleep.
You want to help her BUT she can't be waking you up at all hours of the night unless it's a real emergency - like she (or her siblings) are barfing or the house is burning down.
Monster spray can work if they really believe.
Otherwise, they can sometimes be looking for attention especially if they are feeling a little insecure about another baby coming.
You can put a sleeping bag on the floor by your bed and tell her she can come in and sleep there, but she is NOT to wake you up every night. She can put herself back to sleep on her own. Hopefully she will get tired of this uncomfortable sleeping arrangement and go back to her own bed before the baby comes. You need your rest. She also needs to be disciplined for discussing this in front of the younger kids. You have to be the parent here.
Also, I'd suggest you be even more responsible and NOT put your child's real name on the internet! On Mamapedia, we use DD (for dear daughter or darling daughter), DS (son), DH (husband) and so on.
Buy some "Monster Spray" and go spray her closet before she goes to bed. Hopefully that will work.
If you have read "Where the Wild Things Are", that's a good book. Talk about the boy's imagination. Talk about why his imagination took him there.
If this doesn't help, talk to your ped and get more ideas.
junie b jones https://www.amazon.com/Junie-Jones-Has-Monster-Under/dp/0...
great read for the older child. i read it to my almost 6 yr old and have not heard a thing about monsters since then.
