Right, how do you combat the monsters in the bedroom when your lo is too scared to go to bed?

[panicpants]

Ds, 3.10, has suddenly decided that there are monsters in his bedroom (under the toybox) and is now finding it hard to settle to sleep.

For 3 nights now he has gone down ok, and I think he has fallen alseep, but after an hour or 2, I have heard him in our room.

Each time he has crawled into our bed, and is crying, saying there are monsters in his room and it is scary.

He does go back in, and so far, everytime he has fallen straight back to sleep. And stays there the rest of the night.

Today I have had to take the monsters and let them out of the front door so it's safe for him to go to sleep.

We will get a nightlight for his room and see if that helps..but has anyone got any ideas for nipping this in the bud?

TIA

My son had a toy tiger who was very friendly to people but monsters were afraid of him!He also insisted in sleeping with a plastic sword for a while[to kill them]but I love the idea of a spray

Well ds, you know how much Daddy hates having strangers in the house? Do you really think that he would allow monsters in? No, thought not!

So the monster thing was fairly short-lived because Daddy didn't allow monsters in.

But we had some interesting discussions shortly afterwards about how Father Christmas would get in - we must have had the only house in the country where FC had to ring the door bell and be inspected by Daddy before he was allowed in!

we have monster spray in DS's bedroom too, it's a spray bottle with a couple of drops of white musk in it (that's what I had at the time), and it chases the mosters away. I also throw them out of the window.

Our cat sorts them. Before the cat it was a dragon called Hector..

send the dog in for a sniff around

I havent got to the "monster phase" yet, but there are some lovely tips and ideas on here. Thank you!

We used to have an invisible force-field around our house which kept them out. And if one would try to sneak in then Daddy would kick it out with a boot up the bottom (always made them giggle)

"There are no monsters. And if there were monsters do you think they would take mummy on?"

"no."

"well, there you are then. Next problem?"