She's been having "nightmares" (I don't believe she is having nightmares, I think this is just an excuse to stay awake and pester me) since before Christmas. I've done all the usual checking she is not worried about anything, asking what the nightmares are about, looking into what she is reading/watching, talking to the school etc.
We've changed routines. Earlier to bed, hot milk and story, wind down time with no tech. I've even tried walking her once a day. It's getting worse. It was 3:30am by the time she slept last night.
We have docs app next week, in the meantime I am desperate.
We have a "cast a magic spell" we found in a spellbook at nana's house. The spell will "summon an angel" to help her sleep and chase away any nightmares. The angel is her great, great, grandma. She's sprayed "nana's hanky" with some of nana's "lucky heather" perfume and put it under her pillow asking nana to come to her while she sleeps. Nana will smell the perfume and know she is needed and come and watch her while she sleeps.
She's ten. Monster spray stopped working years ago. This is just a more grown up version of monster spray, is it not?
Did I mention I was desperate. I need her to sleep tonight.
AIBU?
To resort to "magic" to help dd sleep?
SooWrites · 17/01/2017 21:05
It could be anxiety. I don't think the nightmares are real but it could be her way of explaining a feeling she doesn't understand.
She has told me that her nightmares are about people she knows dying of cancer and being at their funeral (we have had a few relatives suffer cancer but she hasn't been to any of their funerals) and me dying of drinking wine.
I do not drink wine often but my bloody mother glitters shit to sell on FB. On the rare ocassions I do drink (once or twice a year, usually) I drink here with my family. Of course, we have to keep the bottles to be covered in glitter at a later date. This has resulted in me having a shelf full of empty wine bottles ex-H 'worrying' about my drinking. He could have been quizzing dd on my drinking habits.
Perhaps she is just anxious about my drinking and people she loves dying and 'nightmare' is her way of puttting this into words she understands.
I will mention the concers to GP and ask for referral.
Just in case anyone is now worried about my 'drinking' I last had a drink on NYE. I will be next having a drink on the 28th Jan. After that there'll be no more drinking until Feb half term when we have our usual Feb Half term girls night in around here and I accumulate more bottles which will then be coated in modge podge and glitter and given back to me with paper flowers sticking out of them
I do not have drink problem. I have a mother problem 
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