Parent Thread

fred sanford said:

Out of the blue a couple of years ago my son refused to go to sleep because ghosts/monsters come out at night. I started to kiss all of his furniture, window, closet, his forehead, etc and when he asked what I was doing I casually told him daddy kisses keep monsters/ghosts away. He asked me to kiss a few other things like blow a kiss to the ceiling fan but ever since he goes right to sleep. Downside is I have to kiss his room every night but I'd rather do that than go through the exercise of him being scared of going to bed.

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Whereas my parents moved me into our unfinished basement where all the spiders lived. I hate spiders with a burning passion to this day.

Hatorade said:

Hate or fear them?

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Yes.

Noodleface said:

Still dealing with "bugs". My wife has to lay in the room until he falls asleep - at night only though. During nap time it's fine. We gave him a nightlight but it hasn't helped yet

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That's one of the few irrational fears I remember from childhood.

Teach him about germs, bugs will stop being a thing.

I had a large roach (around 3" long) fly directly at my chest a month or two ago. It freaked me the fuck out. I just wanted it to leave my house, but it went on the attack.

Ao- said:

How many crawled into your mouth while you were sleeping? More than one?

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The world may never know. I did however wake up to them on my face and in my hair a few times.

It's a giant temper tantrum every night. We do bug checks, I gave him "bug killer", I blessed the room, we've left the light on all night (which helped a little). Still my wife has to lay next to his bed until he falls asleep. Last night he was still awake and she said she had to go to the bathroom and he said "ok". So she did actually go, then she just waited outside his door until he fell asleep. She felt really awful about lying to a 2 year old but we're in a rough spot right now.

We were about ready to move the baby into his room but we can't with this going on. Baby of course would sleep through the apocalypse.

For the past several months, I've had to sit in my son's room until he falls asleep, since we transitioned from a crib to toddler bed. He usually wakes up several times a night and calls for me, saying he wants to me sleep in there with him. Last night after we did the bed time routine, I told him I had to go do work and I'd check on him in 5 minutes. He had a big tantrum and was walking up and down the hallway looking for me. Wife got him calmed back down and back into bed and a few minutes later, I went to check on him, said he was doing good and I had to go to the bathroom. He stayed in bed, went back after 10 minutes, said he was doing good, said I had to go do laundry, waited 15 minutes, came back said I had to go feed the cat, said he was doing really good staying in bed. After that he fell asleep. He still woke up a few times in the middle of the night but it's a start to get him to start self soothing and putting himself back to sleep again.

The weird thing to us is he's been in a toddler bed for 9 months or so, he's been in it awhile.

Noodleface said:

It's a giant temper tantrum every night. We do bug checks, I gave him "bug killer", I blessed the room, we've left the light on all night (which helped a little). Still my wife has to lay next to his bed until he falls asleep. Last night he was still awake and she said she had to go to the bathroom and he said "ok". So she did actually go, then she just waited outside his door until he fell asleep. She felt really awful about lying to a 2 year old but we're in a rough spot right now.

We were about ready to move the baby into his room but we can't with this going on. Baby of course would sleep through the apocalypse.

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You might have just homed in on what's going on here. Jealousy and an appeal for attention.

It's not like he's being a little bastard on purpose. The fear is no doubt genuine. But his monkey brain is at work.

My daughter never really transitioned from crib to toddler bed. She had a 4-way crib that had various heights. So at first, it was the highest. Then lower. Then lowest. Then I stopped using the hanger at all and kept the mattress on the floor while still "in" the crib. Then I replaced the one tall side of the crib with a walk-in side. High on one side, and a single bar across the bottom of the other. This lasted until we moved to Hawaii. Then she had a normal twin sized bed, and she was ready for it, after using a hotel for 3 weeks while we moved & found our new house. It worked out pretty nice. My daughter was 4 when we moved, though, so maybe that had something to do with it.

We gave him a bottle of "bug killer" and he's been protecting the house all day. Multiple times. No idea if it'll help (again)

That was my approach. My wife was weak

My wife don't have friends. Anybody want to take her out .????