Maddox has been having nightmares. He’s always been a pretty good sleeper (that is, once we realized that it’s ok if you put your child down and he cries for thirty seconds). But in the past few weeks he started waking up several times at night, and not doing the fake moan/cry he does, but actually crying. Even stranger, he would start crying when it was time to go to bed.
Last Friday we stopped at a roast beef place for dinner and we were playing an iPhone app while we waited. It was this one where animals popped out of boxes. He was enjoying it until we got to one with a lion, at which point he freaked out and it took several minutes to calm him down.
So we’ve spent the past week building up his confidence against lions. I tell him that I’ll protect him from all the lions, that the lions are silly, that they all went away, etc. That’s seemed to have helped, and he’s begun talking about how he isn’t afraid of them either. He’ll even say “Meh-meh KILL lion!”
Now where did he learn the word kill? I have no idea. I don’t think they do much killing in Blues Clues or Yo Gabba Gabba. But if it helps him with his nightmares, more power to him!
