Monday, September 05, 2005

Nightmares and Kids...

Hey there, can someone please answer me this question – Why do kids have nightmares?

My wee one is driving me crazy! He keeps having the most bizarre dreams, he’s starting to freak me out too, and it takes quite a bit to scare me. Unless it has anything to do with clowns, mirrors, and spiders then I will shit myself!

Anyway, my wee one’s latest nightmare is very disturbing. He woke the other night screaming his little head off; he’s only six. When I managed to calm him down, I asked him why he was crying… he shrugged his shoulders and said he didn’t know.

A short while later the same happened again. So, he settles again, for a little bit.

He wakes up crying, this time he tells me that the bath-towels are trying to eat him… hhmmm, I ain’t heard of this one before, killer bath-towels… that’s original. I calm him down and he drops back off.

And he wakes again. This time there is a bath-towel in his bedroom, it wasn’t there before. He claims the bath-towel opened the door and tried to strangle him. So, I’m a bit peed off now, and I tell him off for going into the towel cupboard when he’s supposed to be sleeping. I close his door and go into my bedroom. I wait a few minutes for him to settle and I trod on back downstairs…

At the bottom of the stairs, I decide I want the book that I’m reading, which is in my bedroom. So, back up the stairs I go. I take two steps into my bedroom and freeze… there’s a bath-towel draped over my television and I’m positive it wasn’t there a few seconds ago…

Yup, I felt a bit creeped out. After a few minutes of telling myself that my little brat is winding me up, I get the courage to pick up the towel, fold it and put it away. I close my bedroom door and go back downstairs.

The following morning I wake up and head to the lavvy, as I always do in the morning, there’s a bath-towel hanging from my sons door handle… I questioned him about his dream and the towels and he looked at me as if I was a crazy woman and said he didn’t have a bad dream… he also claims he never took any towels out of the cupboard…

Do I believe him? Well he did look as if he was telling the truth…

Maybe it’s me who needs a shrink!

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