What Do You Think of My "No Monster Music" Idea?

That could work....I've also heard of people giving their children clean spray bottles with "monster repellant" (water) and letting the child fumigate for monsters before bed.

Personally, I just tell my daughters that *I'M* scarrier than any monster and will kick their butts!! This usually gets them giggling and resets the mood to a happier one. Follow by some snuggles and lullabies and my daughters have only had a handful of nightmares between them.

Why feed into the idea that monsters are something to be feared?

If it works for your child, go for it.

Has your child seen Monster Inc. it is a wonderful movie about monsters, not meaning to scare children

We gave our daughter a flashlight and "dream coins" it worked for her, so we stuck with it.

One addition to the monster repellent water is to add lavender oil to the water. Makes things smell good and they sleep better!

I guess I would wait for a 'fear' comment to come up, and ask what *he* thinks he could do... you never know what they'll come up with.

The suggestion of a spray might work if he's in problem-solving mode. I'm kind of with Kristina, though, in that I would not give any validation to the fear or draw attention to it. When my son was going through something similar, if it was during waking hours, I'd find something comforting for him to do-- like bubbles in water in the sink. At night, I'd ask him 'what do you think would make the (dinosaurs) go away?' He'd been having nightmares about dinosaurs eating people, so I let him 'fight' them any way he liked. It was a good discussion and letting him be in charge of figuring out his own solution seemed to ease his fear.

Молодец! никогда это не придумала. Well done. I never thought of this. (Assuming you speak Russian based on your name).

This was my favorite one for my kids. It used to make me cry to listen to it, it was so precious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vdt7KNs4k

Soft music is nice. I've taken to playing my kids old lullaby music when they are feeling grumpy and just need to calm down. It helps, somewhat - they are 6 and 3.

Also, when my daughter said she was worried that there were monsters under the bed, we told her, "Of course there is a monster! His name is Stanley. He's friendly, and keeps the bad monsters away." That worked. For the very rare times monsters come up again, she talks to Stanley. He doesn't travel much, but he's got friends and family all over the place. If we are on vacation, Stanley will arrange for a good monster to be at the hotel/relative's house. No problem.

(Stanley himself is invisible, but if you could see him, he would be purple with green spots, very furry, and have orange horns and claws.)

And for bad dreams, we got her a dreamcatcher.

I never played into the monster thing. I simply kept telling my kids that there were no monsters and that the dark was nothing to fear. Their monster fear lasted about a week. We've never had night lights in their room...ever.

I don't think you should do this...or monster spray...or anything else to "ward off" something that doesn't exist.

My 8 yo has been having issues with bad dreams for years and we have used various things at different times, from a dream angel, to playing music all night (she still does- a very specific lullabye CD over and over again all night long). Right now we talk to the bad dreams. I will say in a loud voice and then she will repeat after me something like this: "bad dreams, you stay away. Leave me alone! I don't want you in here! If you come, I will kick your butt! Go away!" Then I will pretend to be a bad dream and say in a little voice, "okay okay, we will try to stay away. If we forget, yell at us and tell us to leave and we will." I told her to imagine herself kicking them out. Fingers crossed, it is working.