Nightmares after starting Reception. Normal?

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Our sweet son is 5 weeks into starting Reception. It’s a great school, a lovely teacher and he knew lots of children from his childminders who’ve also gone there. He seems to have settled in really well. But we are getting night terrors almost every night. Did your kids have this? We’re doing so much talking about feelings and soothing him and keeping life normal. There have been no other changes in his life. Is there anything else I can do about it? Or do you just have to wait for time to do its thing?

i had this myself in p3 many years ago.
it was turning into sleepwalking too.

when my mum told them, i was moved to a different class. it all stopped overnight. i had been afraid of a shouty teacher but couldn’t tell anyone. was trying to just get on with learning and be good. it was so stressful it was impacting me a lot.

so i’d suggest your child is really struggling with something and it needs to be changed and not to wait.