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Bed bugs, bed monsters, go away! |
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by surfingmama  (November 2006) (rank 500+) |
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My daughter used to fear bed bugs or any kind of imaginable monsters lurking under her bed. This sounds like the typical Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin has a morbid fear of bed bugs and monsters, but it’s not really funny in truth. It got tiring especially
when I was jolted awake in the middle of the night by my daughter’s screams and cries. So I had to think of a solution fast. Luckily my mum was around one night when the child feared going up to her room, and what she suggested made me smack my head. Why didn’t I think of these before:
Tell her you’re sprinkling some fairy dust onto her bed, and that the fairy dust would prevent any bed bugs, any monsters from getting into the bed while she’s asleep. Fairy dust? Now where would you get that? It’s actually good ol’ scented baby powder.
The magic circle. Take a long piece of rope and circle it around their bed. Tell them the magic rope will prevent anything from getting near the bed. Don’t forget to chant Acadabra!
It’s great to be able to come up with simple and creative ways to alleviate your child’s fear. Of course, the above solutions work as long as they still believe in fairytales. Taking them to a specialist should be a last resort or when fairytales don’t work for them anymore. Thanks mum!
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