by Amy Jo Browne

Created on: November 09, 2008

Nightmares are terrible to a child as a parent it is unpleasant to watch a child go through this unnecessary terror. There is an answer to those nightmares and night terrors that seem to wake up the whole household and it will get rid of monsters and those creatures, which cause the nightmares.

I am a parent of three children and when they were, little they had their share of nightmares featuring boogiemen and other creatures of the night. I came up with a good idea of making a monster be gone spray that we used nightly as they were tucked into their beds and this was a neat little trick to keep the monsters away, or so they thought.

We as adults know the monsters are just a figment of over active imaginations so we can combat that with the monster be gone spray. Purchase a small unique spray bottle in your local grocery store or department store. Design a label on your computer and attach it to the bottle. Fill the bottle 2/3 of the way with water and add in a scent and it suddenly becomes monster be gone spray. I used vanilla extract, but peppermint oil would work as well.

Tell the children this is monster be gone spray and that it must be sprayed by an adult to work properly. This spray being mostly water will not harm blankets or anything the mist falls on, and it will send the air. You could spray it on the pillowcase of your child as an extra measure to keep the monsters gone.

We used monster be gone spray for a few months only, I told my children that since it was sprayed so often the monsters decided to move along and bother others. Soon there was no need to use the spray and nightmares were outdated. Now they are teenagers and they know the truth of the monster be gone spray but that is fine, as it served its purpose and helped them sleep better.

There are measures that parents can take to assure that monsters and boogiemen stay away from your child and they follow this paragraph.

Bring a calm atmosphere within the home goes a long ways in how a child acts during the day and how that child sleeps at night as well. Minimize the anger and violence the child sees if possible, in cases of domestic violence, remedy the situation for you and the child both by leaving the home.

Talk the child how things are at school perhaps a bully is bothering the child; try as a loving parent to remedy the situation. Change classrooms or schools if needed to avoid a bully.

Keep the violent shows off your television. If there is violence on the television programs, a child watches that child may not be able to process that it is pretend and it may reoccur within the dreams for that child.

Schedule meals at a regular time and stick to the schedule. Sometimes when children get out of a schedule, their young minds cannot process the new events and it manifests as nightmares.

Relaxing your child before bedtime goes a long way towards helping them ease into sleep, so that everyone in the entire family gets a good nights rest safe from monsters. Try setting up a good bedtime ritual of relaxing time curled up with a good book with a caring parent.

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