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Where do the 'monsters' come from?

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Northerner · 16/11/2004 16:41

My ds is 2.7 and currently obsessed with monsters.He wakes in the night saying he is scared of the monster in his bedroom. When playing with his toys I hear him talking of monsters chasing and eating people. And naughty boys get taken to the monsters cave apparantly.

Is this normal?!!!

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zephyrcat · 16/11/2004 16:45

seems to be!! my dd is 2.11 and has started running away from 'monsters' all over the place!! I dont know where they come from either we dont tell her monster stories or anything!!

BadHair · 16/11/2004 17:38

Ds1 is 4 and has been "doing" monsters since he was 2.5. Think its something to do with working out what is imagined and what is reality.
Have to say that I didn't help by telling him that if he didn't eat his tea the monsters would eat him!

willow2 · 16/11/2004 22:07

Under the bed?

No, seriously, he's about the right age for his imagination to start kicking in and causing nightmares. DS went through this - still does every now and then and is coming up 5 - and had to really keep a close eye on what books we read, what tv he watched etc etc and try and head off anything potentially scary before we got to it. That said, if you think he has been living in a "monster-free" zone it might be worth trying to find out who is telling him about them... is there an older sibling/cousin who needs to be asked to keep quiet for a bit?

Hulababy · 16/11/2004 22:09

LOL Northerner - as you know my DD is exxactly the same age as your DS, and she too is obsessed with monsters. She, so far, isn't scared of them but talks about monsters daily, and she even had DH playing at being monsters the other evning when I was out. We have scary monsters and friendly monsters, and we musted forget baby monster who just wants to be with his mummy!

Must be their age!

codswallop · 16/11/2004 22:10

we have never had monsters at all
weird eh?

Freckle · 16/11/2004 22:11

Haven't they watched Monsters Inc.??? I thought everyone knew where monsters come from .

Hulababy · 16/11/2004 22:14

Can't think where DD knows about monsters as such really??? Maybe nursery? TV? Books? I guess! Luckily DD doesn't seem to be scared of her monsters as yet.

mummytummy · 16/11/2004 22:16

Hi Northerner, 2 of my friends' children from DD1s antenatal group have both been having nightmares about monsters, and they are both 2.7. My DD1 (also 2.7) doesn't have nightmares at all, but every morning she is telling me all about her dreams which are normally fluffy animal type dreams. I think their imaginations are really running away with them at this age.

harrassedmum · 16/11/2004 22:18

The tweenies often talk about monsters. Damn TV

Hulababy · 16/11/2004 22:23

mummytummy - completely agree about the imagination running wild right now. DD is just the same.

CountessDracula · 16/11/2004 22:47

We have the occasional monster, but mostly caterpillars and ladybirds and scary cows ???

For some reason dd aged 2 and 2 months is scared of all three. Not in reality but the idea of them. I know that the scary cow is a cow that she had that laughed madly which she hated, and the caterpillar was a plastic toy that she met ONCE when she was 1 - ladybirds I have NO idea!

muminlondon · 17/11/2004 13:39

At that age I used have nightmares about monsters in the wardrobe, my mum tells me. When I could talk I gave a pretty good description of astronauts as it was the time of the moon landings. I agree imagination must run riot at that age - and I must have got that image from the TV.

Mum2girls · 18/11/2004 22:38

Northerner - how do you deal with it when he wakes in the night ?

emwi · 18/11/2004 23:31

DD aged 2 flinches at lions and crocodiles in books when they are showing their teeth in a scary way - she says no no no and makes me turn the page over quickly - I recently managed to get three books out of the library all of which had a scary crocodile in them (by mistake I wasn't trying to scare her)

goreousgirl · 18/11/2004 23:39

There's a great book called POG which my daughter read at school last week, turning the monster into someone who is afraid of the CHILD under the bed! My little girl isn't afraid of monsters (yet), but I thought this book would be a great help if she was! Good luck!

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