Try This: How Do You Deal With Nightmares and Monsters Under the Bed?

When I was little (around 3) my nanny decided to take me to the mummy movie. It traumatized me and I was sure mummies and the scarab beetles would come for me I could barely sleep and would wake my parents up so they could protect me. One day my mom came across this "anti monster spray" It was just bubblegum scented perfume but i sprayed it everywhere i thought there were monsters. It made me feel alot better sleeping in my room, i recommended this to my older sis & it has worked for her really well.

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I dont know about monsters... never had that problem but with nightmares...we hung a dreamcatcher above the bed. When my daughter did have a nightmare, I told her the dreamcather must be full and would take it down, take it outside and shake it out. she would go back to bed with no problems!

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Just Talk to your kids explain the monsters are there to protect and play with them ... Give the Monsters Names Like Freda and Freddie.. I did that with my daughter she had a magic flash light she could use to tell freda and freddie she did not want to play ..Or freda and freddie would play gave by moving her dolls around and hidding her coat under her bed ...It was fun and to this day my daughter was never afraid of monsters and is very good with disabled and other people

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when my daughter was afraid of night-time monsters, i told her that they had all gone home to bed for the night so they could get up in the morning to go to monster school just like she gets up and goes to school. and of course all the monsters we ever allow in our house are nice monsters anyhow and they are not scary. it worked for us,.

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When my son started having monster fears, I firmly insisted that monsters were not allowed in the house because they made a mess. When he questioned or objected, I listened to what he said, and again firmly reminded him that I simply did not allow monsters in the house so there was no way they could be hiding under the bed or closet or anywhere else. It worked.

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so funny i heard about monsterspray from another parent friend when my triplets where little. they where not affraid of monsters it was giant spiders so in our house it was spider spray we still laugh about it all the time

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Cathki9pO..shut up about your stupid hot sex life. This article is about kids and monsters...not about horney whores !

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In our house we would do a "monster search" together 1st with monster spray (water in a sprayer bottle with a few drops of my husband's aftershave). The kids would spray the bottle while I assisted by going holding up bedskirts and opening closet doors. Then I left the bottle on the nightstand just in case. Then we read a book and it was lights out. Worked great! Neat to see many folks also had Monster spray.

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Tell the kids that monsters are too big to hide under the bed. They hide in the closet!

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Saying their payers at bedtime helps keep the dark forces from using sleep (unconsciousnes) to invade a child's dreams. In other words, "someone to watch over me when I sleep" But if parents are too much on top of it and do not do likewise, FOGEDABOUDIT.
bERNARD.

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Why on earth would you even turn off the light when a child is that terrified? I say leave it on until they grow out of the "monster" phase. Replace the light bulb with a 25 watt. It's cheaper than getting a shrink for your traumatized child. Leave the closet door hang open. If you and the rest of the family can afford the loss of sleep go ahead and make yourselves miserable.
In addition to leaving on the light, I sprayed the sides of the bed and the rugs with lavander water and called it angel spray. Angels love that smell and they watch over the room all night.

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When my young brother was about 6, he watched some horror movie with my middle brother age 11 and myself-age 15. He really was scared and mommy had to reassure him that it was "just a movie". After he fell asleep-with the light on, my brother and myself went in his room with white T shirts stretched over heads so we looked like ghosts. We made some noise and woke him up. He was scared -hitless and he wet his pants! We still laugh about it to this day. Even my father thought it was funny!

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When I was little I wasn't ever scared of monsters in my room, but there were A LOT of monsters chasing me in my dreams (and no, I didn't ever watch scary movies!). So, one day my mom gave me a "magic (invisible) ring" and told me all I had to do was say "stop" to the monsters and turn my ring, and that would turn my "dream monsters" into jello or marshmallows, or whatever I wanted them to, and then I could eat the monsters. And the funny thing is, it actually worked. I think the "magic ring" helped make me aware of my dreams and that I could control my dreams even while I was dreaming.
~Christina

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The kid in the picture looks like he was just exposed to the Bill O'Reilly Show.

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When I was a little girl, my brother (older by 2 years) and I were always scared of monsters. my parents took an old spray bottle and put a picture of a monster with a big red "X" across it on the bottle and they said it was monster repellent. What it really was is Odo Ban. It "kept the monsters away" and made the bedroom smell good. We sprayed it around the room and under the beds. It was a win-win.

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When my twins were very young, 3 or 4, they told me one afternoon that they were afraid of monsters in their room. I responded with "WHAT, there are monsters in your room?" And they shook their heads yes. I charged down the hall to their room, slammed the door and proceeded to beat the monsters to a pulp. Slamming pillows on the bed, yelling at them telling them, to get out....Lots of noise...finally after I had beaten the monsters to a pulp I came out of the room covered in sweat and my boys were waiting in the hall. I looked them in the eye and told them "Daddy took care of it, if you have any more trouble let me know." I got to big hugs and the monsters never came back. Children just need to know that you will protect them from any monster...and monsters go away.

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Mom had a great remedy for monsters in the bedroom at night.
1. made the dog sleep with me
2. lock the closet.
3. took the legs off the bed.

and finished it up with, "Now, you know nothings under the bed, and if there's anything in the closet, I sure hope it can hold it till morning, till I let the dog out..... worked for ME.... :)

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Just make these sissys read Stephen King novels. It'll help.

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