Scared in own room

Some children are just more sensitive to things. Sometimes the see or hear things that scare them but don’t verbalize it then when they go to sleep their brain dwells on it. You might try having them sleep in the same room for a little while, itmight help just knowing that someone else is in the same room.

If you do let them sleep on the couch don’t let them watch the television-this can be a hard habit to break later. Try talking with her to see why she is afraid to go to sleep, if it is that she is scared of the dark go ahead and leave the bedroom light on for her, maybe a radio will help to distrct her thoughts. Hope some of this helps 🙂

Still uses a radio to this day.

Excellent wisdom Kim!!

I also read them books each night or we told each other stories, sometimes the stories would lead them them telling me why they were afraid of the dark.

My kids swore there were monsters in their rooms. So I made monster spray(I think you can buy this now, I think I saw it somewhere) All I did was put water in a spray bottle with a little scented oil every night we would spray anywhere they said were monsters in their room (closet, under the bed etc). It worked they could smell the monster spray and knew no monsters could go where the spray was. They slept and it fragranced their room too.

Love the spray idea, never thought about doing something like that before. I also have a little one that is afraid of the dark. I do leave on the bathroom light for him, and then the radio.

I try to put on soothing music, something that well relax him. My oldest has out grown this, so I know that my youngest well too. Let us know how it goes for you.

It just takes time for them to calm down.

He loved things that were native american with the drum beats with nature sounds etc. worked really well

its right after Halloween, lots of things in stores, peers etc were scary .. Its somewhat normal that they don’t understand it was pretend

make a dream catcher – email me if you need directions hslinks @ gmail . com *(take out the spaces)

i used a small aquarium the air stones/bubbler tended to work like white noise, the light was bright enough i could walk in to do diapers etc in the middle of the night and not get killed stepping on toys .. even if you get the cheapy charcoal filter it makes a noise too .. (you may need to put washcloth under the motor, cause of vibration noise)/ put the fish food in another room – or they will mega feed them ..

try a rocker in their room and do story time there .. in fact if you have one of those mini book lights they could be getting used to the darker room while you are reading

make sure that there are no trees or bushes touching the house, anything within a foot can scratch the side of the building under wind or snow load. this tends to make the kids more scared.

if you have a tree near by it’s shadow can look really strange.

i didn’t use the radio because they will want to use it when they are teens, and at that point they will use the headphones on high and mess their ears up.. the bubbler usually works ..

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hslinks

I too have a little one (5) that tends to have “bad dreams” every night just so she can come get in bed with me. i really like the fish tank idea. maybe she will get a new fish for christmas and mom can get a solid nights sleep.

when my kids were young we used monter spray ( water and vanilla extract) we sprayed under the bed in the closets and in the air -to scare away the monters -silly but it always seemed to work -good luck Bobbi -ne

Doing daycare I have learn that children are all different. And children that are really sensitive need a routine . For daycare I use a timer – for taking turns with toys and when it gets to be 15 minutes before quiet time I tell them when the timer goes off it is lay down time.

You will need to be firm and make her stay in her bed. As far as your son – I have had kid that are afaid of everything from dirt,bugs , even cartoons that most kids enjoy – I simply reasure them – the cartoons I try and avoid. Sometimes with like bugs I try and show them they won’t harm you .

Hope this helps . Bobbi -NE

@atta76 92114 wrote:

Thanks so much, so many great ideas. This is such a wonderful, caring group!

The past two nights have been okay. A little fussing but not the crazy crying like before. I think Halloween did have something to do with it now that I think about it.

She was not liking to go by the Halloween displays in the stores.

Its usually not the best place to take kids, especially since where I used to work, it was encouraged to scare people or freak them out.

I actually had to quit because I couldn’t stand seeing kids cry on their way out from how frightened they got.