Leaf 🌱
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Oct 3, 2017 20:09:28 GMT -6
I think DD may be having bad dreams but I’m not sure how to ask about them without creating fear or confusion. She just turned two so I don’t know how much she’ll actually understand or even remember. She wakes up MOTN once a week or so SCARED. She’s definitely awake so I don’t think it’s an actual night terror. Any ideas or recs?
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Post by grumpycat on Oct 4, 2017 6:19:08 GMT -6
I think DD may be having bad dreams but I’m not sure how to ask about them without creating fear or confusion. She just turned two so I don’t know how much she’ll actually understand or even remember. She wakes up MOTN once a week or so SCARED. She’s definitely awake so I don’t think it’s an actual night terror. Any ideas or recs? Developmentally this in line with her age. DS started doing something similar around 2. I would go in and give him a hug/rub his back for a few minutes. Assure him that he was ok and that I love him. He's 2.5 now and I often ask him what he dreamed about when he wakes up in the morning or the MOTN. His MOTN nightmare wake ups seem to have decreased. He probably doesn't understand what a dream is and we haven't broken it down for him, but he will engage in conversation with me about things he may have dreamt about (his friends, family members, favorite toys/animals, pets, etc). He does understand "scared" and "scary." I personally wouldn't work on those concepts during MOTN, but explore them when something freaks her out during the day. DS' thing was thunder. He still doesn't like it and he will tell us it's scary, but he doesn't freak out like he used to. |
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Taitai
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Post by Taitai on Oct 5, 2017 7:31:39 GMT -6
I know that our DS (2.5) has dreams - because on the monitor we can sometimes hear him laugh in his sleep or talk in his sleep. One time a few weeks ago, he was saying "no! No!" in his sleep, so I am assuming he was having a bad dream. He hasn't woken up from a bad dream yet...so I guess we're just waiting to cross that bridge when we come to it. I plan on sending DH in to comfort him, give a back rub, and soothe DS back to sleep. Then we will probably buy a book about dreams to discuss during the day, as DS really loves books and responds to lessons/information in them.
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Post by billyhorrible on Oct 5, 2017 7:59:53 GMT -6
Both my boys have/had nightmares and night terrors. LBB was very verbal, very early, so we knew what it was because he would wake up screaming about spiders. BH just wakes up screaming and won't go back to sleep.
I never worried about confusing them. I just told them it was a dream, it wasn't real, and they were safe in their room. Lots of sitting, holding, soothing voices.
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Post by seamonster on Oct 7, 2017 20:27:14 GMT -6
I do ask the next day if DS had a bad dream and if he says yes, I ask him what it so we can address his fears. Sometimes he doesn't remember waking up.
Edited to add: when I do go into his room, I rub his back and reassure him he's safe and mommy and daddy are here.
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Post by loves2read on Oct 9, 2017 1:20:42 GMT -6
Just lots of love and reassurance that you are there and won’t let anything get to them. When my boy’s overactive imagination kicked in and he started thinking there were scary things in his room, I would tell him that his stuffed animals were there to watch over him and he didn’t have to worry because they would protect him while he slept. That seemed to work pretty well.
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