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my three year old daughter has managed to get the idea from somewhere? that monsters are going to get her in the night she is too frightened to sleep in her own room and has to sleep with us untill she drops off then we put her back in her own room but if she wakes up in the night she is back in with us again
has anyone anyideas????

It took a bit of time to find the exact problem when my 4 yr old was scared of going tosleep. (we had to get rid of her beauty & the beast book)Try to find out exactly what is worrying her,keep the door a bit open & the landing light on and say you,ll keep coming to check o n her but insist she stays in her own bed or you,ll never get a good night's sleep between you!

My 3 year old son has also reached the "monsters in my room" phase. It is hard but try not to let your daughter into your bed, it gets more and more difficult to break the habit. I stroke his head and reassure him all is ok and that there are no monsters. I also leave the landing light on for him until he is back to sleep. He has a large teddy bear that sits in his bed and teddy "looks after him". Good luck, I know what its like!!!!!

My son (now aged nearly five) went through the same thing and we cured it by using a pretend "monster spray" in his bedroom before he went to sleep - basically walking around pretending to spray in the wardrobe, under his bed, behind the curtains etc. After a couple of weeks looking like a bunch of idiots he stopped asking and now happily goes to sleep without it. May be worth a try?

I had the same problem with my daughter and now my son. The way we dealt with it was to remove the objects that was starting the fear off ie cuddle toys ect. Still allowing them to come into our bed on occasions. Eventually after about 3 weeks it settled back down and they now sleep in their own beds alnight. Also I found a night light helps.

I had the same problem with my son, so I came up with the idea of a 'magic bubble'. This was an invisible bubble that I had to stretch across his whole bed, parents must kiss the child before the bubble goes up or they will break it. But because it is a magic bubble, monsters cant get in. You can then make it a game where the parent breaks the bubble "by accident" and has to reseal it. We found that our son was fine after that. The bubble also magically reseals after the child has gone to the toilet!