Posted on 03/16/2005 5:21:03 AM PST by ShadowDancer
Our small children used to slip plastic snakes and spiders under the covers to rest on the pillows of the made bed. My wife would pull back the covers at night and scream. It worked almost every time. The kids loved it.
My monster was not a monster at all, but a skeleton. His plan was to slither up through the tiny gap between my bed and my wall. Funny he never planned on popping up on the side of the bed away from the wall. Skeletons are funny like that. But I countered his plans. See, he was not permitted to "get me" if I saw him coming. So all I had to do was face the wall when I went to sleep. Viola! Never popped his bony head up at all. Last I knew, he moved on when he realized he was never going to get one over on me.
My little brother was also fairly creative..used lighter fluid and a match..
Burned our house down but ah what they hey...the good news was that the monster was no longer under the bed...
The bad news however was that...
He had instead possesed my little brother...
I had a friend in high school who was terrified of whales, because she was taken to see Pinochio as a child and was scared by Monstro.
Phobias are weird things....
I agree! We used to tell the kids that there was no monster and if one showed up that we were tougher than any monster. The kids appreciated that we were confidant that we could defend them against anything. That fantasy stage didn't last too long at our house.
We use "monster-be-gone" at my house, too ... only I use a little spritz of my perfume and make sure that I get some on the covers so if they wake up in the middle of the night they can still smell it. :)
Excellent! I may try that. Up to this point I have relied on my gallon spray jug of Ortho Monster-B-Gon. I spray it around my son's bedroom and under his bed and it pretty much took care of ants, silverfish, dragons, orcs, and monsters. But a clip full of Black Talons would work too, of course, I guess. I just figured the poison would be easier on the woodwork and drywall than a magazine from my Browning. (Anyway, wouldn't you really need a 12-gauge loaded with 00 buck to deal with a big hairy monster?)
Bob and Horse Ping!
I always want to do those things to my kids, but I want them to stay in their bed all night, not end up in my bed.
Kids are easy to scare.
You're too funny!
When my children were four weeks old, I started putting them to bed at 8:00. Every night, they went to be bed at eight. If we had company or something kept me from watching the clock, my son would come running into the room to declare it was 8:00 and time for bed. (He did this until around age 14!) I'd tuck him in, sometimes pulling the monster routine, and that was it for the night. They never slept in my bed.
Oddly though, we had company over the weekend and their eight year old son slept with them as he does every night. I had to bite my tongue.
Our boys have a very set bedtime routine, and always have. Its the advice I offer to new mothers. They need the time to get things done, or to just sit in peace and quiet.
And what about people whose kids "have" to have a TV in the room and on to fall asleep. Not when they spend the night at our house.
We are having a little problem with our youngest (3 1/2). He wakes up and tries to get in bed with us almost every night. I get up, put him back in his bed, but many times it gets repeated. Not sure what to do about that. Probably a phase.
some guy was selling an air guitar once, i remember
Creative Parenting 101 (cute story)
Tell him there's a monster under his bed that will get him if he gets out of bed. Hahahaha
Damn. Why didn't I think of that?
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