This is a bit late but I'm just checking this group out for the first time.
My wife and I have 3 yo triplet boys. A few months ago one of them started
telling us there are monsters upstairs in their bedroom. My solution was to
tell him that this is "Daddy's house" and Daddy does not let any monters in
the house. This actually has worked and we've had no problems since!

Rich
husband to Carolyn
father to Matthew, Jeremy, Nicholas 6/29/2000 and Rebecca 6/2/2003




"Andrea" wrote in message
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I know that childhood fears start popping up around this age (3 1/2 next
month), but one of my twins is taking it to the extreme. Madison will not
go
into any room by herself until someone goes in & turns the light on for
her,
even in the middle of the day. She says there are monsters everywhere.
She
also asks questions about monsters all the time. She asks if I like
monsters
and if Daddy likes monsters. I keep telling her there are no monsters.
She
wants Jordan to go everywhere in the house with her because she says she
is
scared.

Is there anything else I can do to help ease her mind? I have thought
about
making a "monster spray" and spraying it around to "get rid of the
monsters",
but I feel that might be counterproductive since I keep telling her there
are
no monsters. I feel terrible that she seems to be so worried about this.
I
don't know if there's something I can do about it or if we just have to
wait
out this stage. What do you all think?

Oh, I also wanted to add that I monitor what they watch on TV very
closely, so
it's not like she's up at night watching the Sci Fi channel or anything
like
that. There are only a few shows they are allowed to watch, but I did
notice
something about a "monster bear" on 'Little Bear' a while back, but it
didn't
seem scary at all to me. I'm not sure if this contributed to her fears.

TIA,
Andrea
twin girls-Madison & Jordan
3/22/00