Creative Parenting...

Sometimes as a parent you do whatever it takes. Here was our latest creative resolution to bad dreams.

Monday morning David woke up from a bad dream about 4:10. Since Darell’s alarm was going to go off in 5 minutes he went in to get him. Well David was very upset and would not settle down. Darell brought him into our room and into bed with me. I tried to ask David what was wrong and he told me the bugs where going round and round. He was very serious. Darell got dressed for work and brought David’s favorite blanket into our room for him. Well this triggered David again. He did not want his blanket which is so out of character. He told me the bugs and bad dream were in his blanket so we quickly took it out of our room. After quite some time of hearing him breathing heavily he fell back to sleep with me.

So yesterday morning David and I put his blanket in the wash machine to wash away the bad dream. This mostly worked. When I put him down for is nap he was glad to see his blue blanket but continued to tell me about the bugs on the wall behind his crib. He did not want to settle down for his nap. So trying to think outside the box I saw the can of Lysol on his dresser. So I got him down with me and together we sprayed the bad dreams and bugs away. It must have work since he took a nap.

Bedtime last night was a repeat of spraying the bugs and dreams. It worked again. Everyone had a full nights sleep.