My soon to be 9 year old son is afraid that there is something under his bed?

Question

This seems to be a new thing and he is usually a fearless kid. He says that something grabbed his leg at night. I told him it was probably the cat jumping up on his bed. Anyways, How can I help him? He cant have a nightlight or the hallway light on because he cant fall asleep unless its completely dark.

Answer 1

first you need to believe him,second ask him if it happened only that one time.If he believes its a ghost than play it out and tell him you watched a show about ghosts and your suppose to tell it to go away out loud and not to bother him anymore.also it worked for everybody on the show.Good Luck

Answer 2

Have your husband go in the room alone at night before bedtime with your son waiting outside the room, close and lock the door and have him make a bunch of racket like yelling and crashing and rumbling, then have him come out looking disheveled and beaten up and tell your son he's taken care of the monster.

it may sound ridiculous but maybe you could use this as a last resort, after you've tried other techniques.

Answer 3

give  him a little flashlight and tell him to use it when he feels afraid. once he looks under the bed and sees theres nothing there mabe he'll be better about it.

Answer 4

I have a 8 1/2 daughter and we went through this same thing, what we did was open the closet door in her room then  get our cat and i would take him to her room and shut the bedroom door let him walk around for a few min in there then let the cat out and what we told our daughter was that monsters did not like cats and that the cat while he was in  the room he ate all the monsters and the monsters that got away went back and told all their friends not to go to our house because there was a cat protecting her. After a few weeks of doing this she was fine...Now she thinks that we will never have monsters in the room because our cat has eaten them all up!!

Sounds crazy but it worked!

Answer 5

Try putting a nite light in his room and act like you got the monster out from under his bed. I have to do that for my 5 yr old son. I don't want him to think that his feelings are not important to me and his dad. We check under his bed and the closet and tell the monster to go home.....it has made a huge difference in my son's sleeping habits.

Answer 6

Waaaaaaahhh! I think you need to sleep with him until he recovers from that incident.

Answer 7

I am a kid but i say that you should go in the room with him and point a flashlight under the bed to show him that there is nothing to be afraid of.

Answer 8

If it were my child, I'd take him to a psycologist fast to see if they can help and I'd check the house JUST to make sure someone isn't in the house just to make sure there isn't or wasn't someone in the house as it is possible.  I'd make him a bed near your bed for now, not in the bed with you because you know CPS likes to take kids that don't sleep in their own bed.  I have 4 kids.