I NEED TIPS ON HOW TO HANDLE AN ALMOST 3 YEAR OLD WHOSE SUDDENLY TERRIFIED OF NIGHT TIME she’s woken up 2-3x a night for the last week screaming that she’s scared of monsters 😭😭 Let her pick out a nightlight on Amazon to “scare away the monsters” but idk what else to do 🫠🫠🫠 - ThreadSky

mrspac.medsky.social • 79 days ago

I NEED TIPS ON HOW TO HANDLE AN ALMOST 3 YEAR OLD WHOSE SUDDENLY TERRIFIED OF NIGHT TIME

she’s woken up 2-3x a night for the last week screaming that she’s scared of monsters 😭😭

Let her pick out a nightlight on Amazon to “scare away the monsters” but idk what else to do 🫠🫠🫠

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drneelimakale.bsky.social•79 days ago

Make monster spray - water + fragrance of choice - and spray under bed and in room before bed. Make a monster catcher and hang it over the window or wherever they want (basically a dream catcher).

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

Ok I’ve been pretending to spray for monsters but haven’t used an actual bottle. Imma try this!

wifamilymed.bsky.social•78 days ago

Oh I remember the night terrors with my son. Wish I had all these terrific ideas posted here.

aspelina.bsky.social•79 days ago

Fairy lights & monster spray worked well in our house.

mariagoobs.bsky.social•79 days ago

Ours just turned 3 but went through a phase claiming a giant was in her room and so we have taken to “shooing the giant” so maybe you can shoo monsters too 😂 kids are so creative and weird but alas the solutions are usually equally creative and weird

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

V impressed she is powerful enough to shoo a giant ☺️☺️☺️☺️

amberbeads.bsky.social•79 days ago

Don't have kids but when I was a kid I had a "nightmare squad" of defensive studies, headed up by a dragon stuffy. I remember when I would have nightmares the dragon would show up in the nightmares and scare away whatever was in it.

No idea why or how it worked, but it did 🤷

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

Omg I love this 🥹🥹 our daughter has a stuffed replica of our now deceased GSD Heidi who used to fiercely protect our daughter so may use that as her “defender”

quiltbunny.bsky.social•78 days ago

Get a little spray bottle with water in and a splash of vanilla. Tell her it is monster spray and have her keep it by the bed. Do a show of spritzing as she goes to bed

nonsensebabble.bsky.social•79 days ago

We would walk around the room and spray Lysol (or simply air deodorizer) everywhere. Logically monsters aren’t clean and would run away when they smelled the spray.

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

Mmmmm mhmm I like this theory

nonsensebabble.bsky.social•79 days ago

It was easy and worked! Good luck

popezebbidiexii.bsky.social•79 days ago

maybe night terrors?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-terrors/symptoms-causes/syc-20353524

plantscatsandbooks.bsky.social•79 days ago

We did “what ifs”. Kiddo would wake up saying “what if the house was on fire” and I would (sometimes struggle) to come up with a positive. “What if it looked like the house was on fire but it was full of fireflies”, etc. worked like a charm 99% of the time

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

Lmao not me immediately thinking that my response to the dire question would be “well honey you have a fire extinguisher, fire blanket and fire ladder under your bed!!” 💀

plantscatsandbooks.bsky.social•78 days ago

But that’s the point. To take an intrusive thought and turn it around. Though I would be thinking these things to myself

rookiecitycop.bsky.social•79 days ago

For me, what I have told my 3.5 year old is that monsters can't hurt us if we fight back.

Not only did it help to heal my inner child, but it also helped him to be less afraid of monsters.

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

Oooooh I’m digging the fighting back idea!! Ok gunna try that

dewdropfairy2.bsky.social•79 days ago

Monsters aren’t real probably doesn’t work with a three year old, huh?

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

Lolololololol wishful thinking

patriciaf10.bsky.social•79 days ago

When my daughter went through this we invented monster spray. We pretended to spray a can everywhere around the room, in the closet, under the bed etc and it worked every time. Had to duplicate it for leprechauns, Halloween etc. Make the spray sound too!

katiecrostonsmith.bsky.social•79 days ago

I let mine help me design a sign for her room. She picked a big red “no” in a circle and we wrote “no monsters allowed” on it. And I told her that they can read the sign and know that they aren’t allowed in here.

unusualtimeline.bsky.social•79 days ago

Hide under her bed one night, and leap out from underneath, shouting, “See!!! No monsters!!!!”

jfletchermd.medsky.social•79 days ago

We always told The Tiniest Fletcher™️ that her bed is her “happy, safe, cozy place” where nothing will hurt her. We also made especially sure to always say “love you, see you in the morning” when we said goodnight…I think that doing that somehow reinforced to her that things are gonna be okay.

runnergirl81.bsky.social•79 days ago

I have heard of parents filling a squirt bottle with water and using it as a “Monster Spray.” You could spray it every night at bedtime before she gets situated.

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

This seems to be an overwhelming consensus!! Gunna scour the house for an empty spray bottle 🥲

emilyrose.bsky.social•79 days ago

My friend’s mom had a spray bottle with water that she labeled “monster be gone” or something. She’d spray it under the kids’ beds, in closets, and wherever else it was needed. Worked great. Air freshener works too, if you and kid both don’t mind the smell of air freshener.

medpeds.bsky.social•78 days ago

We put a “Monster Spray” sticker on Febreze and would spray it in the girls’ room telling them that this would keep the monsters away… that and about 30 nightlights that keep multiplying 🤷🏻‍♂️

mrspac.medsky.social•79 days ago

I’d just let her sleep in our room/bed but she’s literally never been able to sleep if we’re in the same room

coffeestat.bsky.social•79 days ago

We bought lavender spray and told both our kids it kept the monsters away. We would spray it in their room every night. Under the bed. Done. Closet. Done. Wherever they wanted it. It worked.

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