But Dad There Are Monsters Under My Bed

I remember shortly after we watched (several times) Monsters, Inc. my kids had a surge in fear that monsters were in their closet, under their bed, or in some dark corner of the house. I reassured them that there were no such things as monsters and that it was just a movie. It was the straight forward approach. They seemed to calm down a bit but there were times that we had to take a different approach. We made up silly responses like, humans taste awful to them.

What reminded me of this is over at Dadventure, he lists out a bunch of things he tells his daughter to assure her there aren’t any monsters.

Here are a few he listed out:

- That’s why we painted your bedroom pink. Monsters hate pink.
- Monsters don’t want to eat us. We taste awful.
- When we bought the new house, we told the realtor we wanted to live in a no-monster neighbourhood.
- Monsters won’t come into your bedroom. Monsters are lazy and don’t like climbing stairs.
- Monsters can’t come down chimneys because the people who make chimneys know how to make them to keep monsters out, but let Santa in.

Have your kids expressed any fear for monsters? I know around Halloween time my kids show some fear in ghosts.