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Old 08-05-2006, 10:41 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
My daughter's excuses always had to do with 'bad dreams', even if it was two minutes after going to her room.
My solution was to take a teddy bear she'd had since her first Christmas and tell her it was the 'bad dream bear'. I told her that anything that was bothering her, she could tell the bear and the bear would absorb all those bad things. It worked.
My son does something similar, but it's with monsters. I finally took a bear that my dad gave to him, told him this was "Pop's special bear", and said the bear would help keep him safe at night, because me searching for the monsters didn't seem to help.
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