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| 148.1 | | 58378::S_BROOK | It's time for a summertime dream | Tue Jul 17 1990 18:32 | 8 |
| Try getting a hand spray type bottle with a bit of water and something
to give it a little smell. Introduce it to him as "Tiger repellant"
or in words he'll understand. Spray it around the room with him before
he goes to bed and see what happens. They tell me it really works!
Good luck!
Stuart
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| 148.2 | Their imagination is working overtime!! | MAJORS::MANDALINCI | | Wed Jul 18 1990 06:00 | 22 |
| My son also went through a spell like that a couple months ago. He was
a little over 2 then. His nanny hates spiders, bugs, frogs, snakes, etc
and he learned it from her making such a stick about them. When he
started running down the hall in the middle of the night into our room
saying there were frogs and spiders in his room, I figured we really
had to work to change his attitide (and his nanny's behavior in front
of him in terms of "bug reaction"). I started showing him bugs all the
time, sang the Itsy Bitsy Spider alot, told him to tell the spiders to
go home because he wanted to sleep, we tell the frogs to hop out the
window, etc. It somehow worked because he doesn't wake up afraid but
will occasionally say "look, frog under my bed - go home you silly
frog" and that is the end of it. Maybe pick up a book on tigers (a
sweet story about one, not one where the tiger is fearful) and read it
together. It might make him realize that tigers aren't that bad. I
think by allowing my son the "talk" to the imaginary creatures in his
room, he developed a relationship with them that he could control. He
may still wake up thinking there are frogs and spiders in his room but
he doesn't come running down the hall.
The real fear stage lasted maybe 2 weeks off and on.
Andrea
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| 148.3 | | FDCV07::HSCOTT | Lynn Hanley-Scott | Wed Jul 18 1990 09:28 | 8 |
| _Franklin in the Dark_ is a good book which I've mentioned in here many
times - about a turtle who's afraid to go into his shell to sleep
because he swears he sees monsters lurking. Through the story, he
meets a number of animals with different kinds of fears, who all have
something to help them (i.e. a polar bear afraid of the cold, who wears
a snow suit when no one is looking).
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| 148.4 | Put the child in charge! | CSG001::RYAN | | Wed Jul 18 1990 12:23 | 5 |
| We just went thru a mini-stage with Marc (2.5). We used this toy,
a clear tube with a liguid in it with stars and sparkles, as a "magic
wand". He used it to make all the "monsters" disappear. This is
similiar to the spray bottle suggestion and worked like a charm.
JR
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| 148.5 | There's a nightmare | USEM::MARCELLINO | | Wed Jul 18 1990 15:33 | 6 |
| Another book we've found to be really good is THERE'S A
NIGHTMARE IN MY CLOSET. - Get ready to read it a million times!
8-) It's great to just use the book as a starting point for
discussions(?)
Lynn
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| 148.6 | Try Shadow method | NRADM::TRIPPL | | Tue Aug 14 1990 10:19 | 12 |
| AJ went through a fear state only briefly. He kept saying he was afraid
of his rocking chair. He had only recently gone into his own room and
big-boy bed. After we realized the problem was the nightlight creating
shadows on the ceiling, instead of the "monster repellant" method or
even trying to reason with him, we decided to show the positive side of
shadows by doing the old finger animals; the bunny, kitten, dog, duck
etc. He no longer has fears, and in fact is quite proud that he too
can make his favorite shadow animals.
Good Luck
Lyn
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| 148.7 | super idea (.6) ! | SHIRE::DETOTH | | Wed Aug 15 1990 05:56 | 4 |
| what a brilliant idea... pity I didn't think of that a long time
ago...!
D.
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