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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 12 2006, 08:58 AM (530 Views) | |
| Luke's Dad | Jan 12 2006, 08:58 AM Post #1 |
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Well, we've hit a new stage with Lucas. Recently, we repainted his room. During that time, he slept with us until the fumes went away. The last couple of nights, he's been resistant to going to bed in his room. When he has, he's made sure that I close up his closet door, then wakes us up in the middle of the night wanting to come to bed with us. Last night he finally told us he was scared there were monsters that were going to eat him up. We tried telling him there were no such things as monsters, we were there to protect him, the cat was there to protect him, etc....... He still seemed kind of bothered. Any suggestions? |
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| kentcouncil | Jan 12 2006, 09:03 AM Post #2 |
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LD... has he watched Monsters Inc.? Seriously! After my daughter watched it, she will occasionally wake up early in the night, stand in the middle of her bed, and scream her lungs out with a huge grin on her face... she says she's scaring away the monsters! (The first time she did it, it took ten years off my life...) I think the movie, in her case, was pretty successful in convincing her that the monsters were more scared of her than she was of them. |
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. - P.G. Wodehouse | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 12 2006, 09:04 AM Post #3 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Monster snorkel, perhaps? (anyone here a Gary Larson fan?) Seriously though, maybe a nightlight? |
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| Improviso | Jan 12 2006, 09:06 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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| Jolly | Jan 12 2006, 09:11 AM Post #5 |
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Why am I reminded of the scene from Major Payne? "If he's still in there, he ain't happy!"
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| Eileen | Jan 12 2006, 09:17 AM Post #6 |
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There imaginations are so vivid at this age! You can use "magical thinking" to help banish the monsters and empower your child at the same time. With all three of my kids...........we made "Monster Spray" . I would have the kids make a label...........drawing of their monster. Then make a big circle around the drawing and put a line through it. Then find a spray bottle and fill with water. Then drop in the magic drops....I would use a fragrance since the sense of smell is very powerful emotionally. Paste on the label and you have monster banishing spray. It is amazing how well it can work. It gives the child something they can do to deal with their fears. They are not able at this stage to intellectualize the fact that monsters are not real. Logic doesn't work yet, but imagination can be your ally too. Good luck! Eileen |
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| DivaDeb | Jan 12 2006, 10:12 AM Post #7 |
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the monster spray is a great idea, Eileen. LD...what we did was buy the monster-fearing child the coolest flashlight we could find, so if he had a bad vibe he could nuke it by flooding it with light He was so excited about his awesome new flashlight, I think he was kind of hoping the monsters wouldn't go away so he'd have an excuse to shine it. PS *edit*...where are the monsters? If they're under his bed, take the dust ruffle off for a while so he can see under it. If they're in the closet, you can go in with him and make sure it's empty before bed. When I was little, I had a monster's eye that was the moonlight shining through the lock mechanism on my double hung window. Daddy put a piece of duct tape over it (stuff fixes anything) and I was fine |
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| John D'Oh | Jan 12 2006, 10:17 AM Post #8 |
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We have a graduated system for monsters. There are friendly monsters, good-but-scary monsters, and grumpy monsters (we didn't think 'bad' monsters would work too well). Generally all of the monsters I find lurking around the bedroom turn out to be friendly, with occasional interruptions from the good-but-scary variety. All the grumpy ones have long since been chased away. |
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| AlbertaCrude | Jan 12 2006, 10:20 AM Post #9 |
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Didn't Bill Cosby have a comedy sketch back in the 60's extolling the magical power of bed covers in protecting kids from bedroom monsters? |
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| DivaDeb | Jan 12 2006, 10:35 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I don't remember AC...but I was convinced that my dolls and stuffed animals would keep them at bay. I never told my parents about the Lock Nest Monster in my window until one night when my mom checked on me and found me buried under about 30 stuffed companions. She was afraid I'd suffocate but my system actually worked pretty well
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 12 2006, 10:38 AM Post #11 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I suppose Poltergeist hadn't come out at that time. Oh my goodness. NOT something you should see when you're 8.
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| Luke's Dad | Jan 12 2006, 10:43 AM Post #12 |
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KC, we'll try Monsters Inc (I hope it works better than Jurassic Park!). Eileen, the Monster Spray is a great idea, as is Diva's Flashlight. Wonder if we can combine the two? As far as graduating the monsters, we've tried that, and he understands that monsters are often "misunderstood" and loves Elmo and the Cookie Monster. That being said, the monster he was worried would eat us was.....The Cookie Monster! Now, The Count, I can understand. He is, afterall, an undead bloodsucking ghoul (Vun, Vun little boys neck to suck on, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah! Two! Two little boys necks to suck on! Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!), but the Cookie Monster?!
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| Optimistic | Jan 12 2006, 10:43 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Kids have pretty wild imaginations- I can actually remember what it felt like when you had those "visions," and they feel just like reality! When I was about 3, I had a dream that an airplane came flying right through my bedroom, above my bed (the only way I can remember my room from that age is by visualizing this dream). When I woke up the next morning, I looked above my head and noticed a crack in the wall in that exact spot. I was convinced my parents had sealed it up during the night. For the next couple years, I could not get to sleep without my parents saying "All airplanes stay out of Kristin's room- and hellicopters, too." Eileen's and Deb's ideas sound great. Trying to convince him that it's all in his head probably won't work (my parents couldn't convince me my room had been airplane free), so working on some kind of monster-destroying mission is probably a good idea! |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| ***musical princess*** | Jan 12 2006, 10:44 AM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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When i was little i never got scared about having monsters in my room but i would get totally freaked at the thought that there were flies and spiders crawling about in my room and over me when i was asleep. x |
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| DivaDeb | Jan 12 2006, 11:02 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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!!!!! Okay...LD...if he's afraid of Cookie Monster, go buy the biggest package of Chip's Ahoy you can find. Tell him if Cookie gets hungry he much prefers real food to human flesh...tell him as long as he has cookies on hand, his family is safe. Kid's don't really require an explanation that makes sense and I don't think they enjoy feeling helpless to conquer their fears. Usually, just a matter of fact, "I've been through everything son, and trust me, this stuff works" will let them have some control and feel more secure. The fact that you don't tell him he's an idiot and has nothing to be scared about is what will really make him feel better. He will know you don't really believe Cookie Monster is trying to get him. But you get to be the hero by solving the problem he's created. I think you'll get past it pretty quick (and spray and a flashlight and whatever other silliness you want to include) |
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| AlbertaCrude | Jan 12 2006, 11:12 AM Post #16 |
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We always had a dog and it slept in a corner of my bedroom. I was pretty confident that no monster would ever dare take on that vicious Fox Terrier/Chihuahua cross.
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 12 2006, 11:13 AM Post #17 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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My family has a long, LONG running joke with The Grither, a popular monster from Spielberg's Amazing Stories. In the story, two children don't believe in the monster, but the parents try to convince them he exists and loves to eat bratty kids; y'know, a scare tactic to get them to settle down. Well, in the end, the 2-story tall monster turns out to exist after all, and the ending is fairly nasty. Anyways, my older cousins had me conVINCED the thing was real. Nothing my parents could do would ever prove me otherwise. (My cousins, who were teenagers at the time, saw the show where I obviously did not, so it helped thier case when they pawned it off as their own story). Yep, it took quite a few years to reverse the brainwashing, that's for sure. :lol: |
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| sue | Jan 12 2006, 11:22 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I've heard that Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" was a good cure for monsteritis. (may have been another one of his books, I think it was that one.) Good luck!! |
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| pianojerome | Jan 12 2006, 11:40 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Luke's Dad | Jan 12 2006, 11:44 AM Post #20 |
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:lol: I watched that one! Pulled it on my nephew and niece, too! Ahhhh, the Grither. Oh no! I typed it once! |
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| Luke's Dad | Jan 13 2006, 11:25 AM Post #21 |
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Thanks for the advice, guys! Last night we did the Monster B-Gone and Monsters Inc. and there were no Monster Alerts last night! Thanks again! |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jan 13 2006, 11:42 AM Post #22 |
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Remember the song, LD? That's the best part! I am the Grither, you cannot escape me... P.S. Glad to hear Monster B-Gone and Monsters Inc. did the trick!
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| The 89th Key | Jan 13 2006, 11:58 AM Post #23 |
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Awesome...now wait till I come over and visit tomorrow. He'll have nightmares for weeks!
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| Luke's Dad | Jan 13 2006, 12:27 PM Post #24 |
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Him?! I'm worried about me! |
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| The 89th Key | Jan 13 2006, 12:32 PM Post #25 |
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"If he's still in there, he ain't happy!"
Now, The Count, I can understand. He is, afterall, an undead bloodsucking ghoul (Vun, Vun little boys neck to suck on, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah! Two! Two little boys necks to suck on! Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!), but the Cookie Monster?!
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