Talking about he BIG BAD WOLF!

[hatty]

Hi

my 2 year old has started waking at night crying fo rmummy - he was a champion sleeper - 2 hours in the day and 12 hours at night - loves going to bed - but he know reg wakes up at diff times in nightcrying adn also resists lseep a bit

he hasbeen saying the folowing things - at times

all dark when i switch the light of
the big bad wolf - just mentions him - in passing - i have no idea where he has heard this phrase from

he sleeps in a cot has a teddy and a nanoo as comforters.  he has alsways slept in the dark

i have asked hm what is botehring him - but he can't say - an he is immediately comforted when i go in and then he goes back to sleep. 

should i give him a night light???
NAy other ideas - i have a 9 week old baby who is sleeping through now - and he has started getting up - !!  There had been some sibling jealousy - bt hings have improved and he has a good amount of mummy time and i make special time for him at bedtimes etc...

thanks for reading

HattyXX

[franchick]

Hi there

I reluctantly got a night light for our DD at about the same age - she had also been used to sleeping in the complete dark, but started asking for a little light. I know that I have read that nightlights can potentially be damaging to eye sight, so you might want to do some research first.

That said, a nightlight did make a big difference to our daughter when she woke in the night - she was not frightened or anything (no crying). I think at age 2 or thereabouts, our kids' imaginations take off massively and thus also their potential fears.

Does someone else look after your LO at any time or does he go to daycare at all? I am reckoning he must have heard the three little piggies story from somewhere....

Hope you get things sorted out for your LO soon. (hugs) x

[hatty]

thanks i think we mighttry a night light -  i am sure he gets this from nursery! - re big bad wolf!! - but what can you do???

[Maffoos mummy]

My son had a phase of saying the big bad wolf was coming,and also saying he didn't want the light off. He is a lot older than your LO but we told him his teddies were there to protect him whenever he wanted in the night,and also got him to close his eyes-and pointed out it's dark then anyway!! During this phase we did make sure we went straight into him to calm him down and show him we were there for him. HTH.xxx

[mari]

Big Bad wolf was here once.  I got a night light and put it on for her when she wanted it.  She did settle eventually.  I was there for her, reassuring her that it was just a story etc and I was always here and nothing would ever hurt her.  We did talk about it during the day and I reassured her again that there was no such thing as a big bad wolf, they are just in stories because some people like reading scary stories, but we like to read nice stories. 
You could tell the nursery and ask them not to read it, I don't read those stories to my LO's there are plenty of other stories that they could read instead.

[hatty]

thanks for the ideas - i relaly like the idea of eyes closed is dark anyway -we tried that last night - and hoorah no night awkening... and he didn't mention the BBW tonight... fingers crossed - sadly have orderefd the night light already onl ine!! will see how things go ... can always send it back...