Last week Mateo had a challenging night of going to sleep. He finally told me that he was afraid of monsters. Apparently mean monsters had been appearing in his dreams at night. He said he didn't want to fall asleep because he didn't want to see the monsters.
Thinking quickly on my feet, I gave Mateo a "bottle" of monster spray. The monster spray was just a pretend thing that he could pretend to hold and spray. The spray scares away mean monsters, but lets nice monsters stay in his dreams.
Most nights he now requests for a refill of his monster spray. After I give it to him, you can hear him whispering, "spray, spray, spray." In the mornings he frequently lets me know that he only had to use the spray once or twice. His sleep has gone back to the more peaceful routine that he was on earlier.
Thank heavens for monster spray!
4 comments:
Sacha, you are so brilliant! What a perfect solution!
We use monster spray in our house too, although ours is a spray bottle of "water." It works well. :)
Hurray for Monster Spray!
Wow, we're keeping that one in mind - so creative! And so precious to imagine Mateo whispering "spray, spray, spray" - oh my goodness. :)
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