“Monsters can appear in dreams at any age. Dreams about monsters/ghosts that don’t exist Remedy: “Clear your child’s sleeping space by changing the bed linen with your child, as this empowers them to make a change and to take charge by doing something productive.” 2. “This could be anything from brushing teeth every morning to the task of learning multiplication tables at school, or perhaps resisting telling ‘little white lies.'” “Nightmares of bugs and spiders point to the development of habits that your child is resisting,” Condron says.
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Nightmares about bugs and spiders in the room or crawling on their skin Image: Design via Karen Cox/SheKnows Image via Getty Imagesġ. More: 21 Diverse children’s books that aren’t just about “dogs and white boys” Barbara Condron, an author who has been teaching dream recall, interpretation and lucidity through her association with the School of Metaphysics since 1975, explains, when equipped with the right tools and knowledge, parents can help their kids overcome their nightmares and the fears that create them.Ĭondron interprets what eight common nightmares mean and how we can help our children deal with their dreams and jitters. Instead of cursing our children’s bad dreams and all the sleepless nights and nights spent in Mom and Dad’s bed that go hand-in-hand with them, we should start thinking of dreams as a priceless guide that give us insight into our little ones’ mental well-being. Let’s face it: The universe can be a frightening and phenomenal place that brings stress upon the most put-together of adults, so why would we not expect our children to work out their emotions through the occasional bad dream? Of course, even these horrible dreams are a sign that our children are developing and acquiring normal and healthy anxieties about the world around them and things they can’t explain. More: 20 Ingenious tricks to get your kids to open up about their school day And what they fail at explaining to us during the day doesn’t always just go away - it often pops up at night, in the form of nightmares about boogie men, vampires, shadows that chase them or creepy-crawly spiders and bugs that won’t leave them alone. Around age 4, many children begin to develop dark and unsettling fears about things adults can’t always understand.
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