DD will be 4 next month, and seems pretty resistant to being scared of anything really. Her daddy is her primary caregiver, and as far as I'm concerned, Father of the Year as well. He's patient, playful, instructive and really loves her.
A while back I had told her for some reason that her Daddy eats monsters for breakfast. It wasn't because I was trying to reassure her or anything, but I guess the subject of monsters came up in play and I threw that in there. I expanded on that a bit, and got a lot of interest and maybe a few giggles: there's no monster that's a match for Daddy, Daddy likes to put a little salt on them before eating them, etc.
DD rarely gets nightmares, she's had maybe 3 that we're aware of her whole life. She'll wake up, call for Daddy, and he'll come. She'll be reassured very quickly and fall back asleep, and in the morning is not the least bit disturbed (we've talked about it).
But despite being pretty resistant to being scared, of all things, she was scared watching the Care Bears movie the other day. I guess there's a witch in it and she was scared of her. She told her Daddy she was scared of the witch, and he asked why. She answered, "you only eat monsters." DH was very quick to understand what she meant, and immediately reassured her: "Daddy eats witches too... I eat them for SNACKS."
She was immediately and completely reassured. I asked her if she was scared, and she seemed barely interested to respond: nope. There is simply no lingering fear whatsoever.
The absolute trust she shows in her daddy is simply amazing. The trust is total. If he says he'll protect her from any witch that comes along, that's good enough for her, and she worries not a second more about it. I wonder if that's also why she's been so thick-skinned about monsters thus far, if the fact that I told her no monster was any match for Daddy was more than enough to banish any nightmares or fears.
A while back I had told her for some reason that her Daddy eats monsters for breakfast. It wasn't because I was trying to reassure her or anything, but I guess the subject of monsters came up in play and I threw that in there. I expanded on that a bit, and got a lot of interest and maybe a few giggles: there's no monster that's a match for Daddy, Daddy likes to put a little salt on them before eating them, etc.
DD rarely gets nightmares, she's had maybe 3 that we're aware of her whole life. She'll wake up, call for Daddy, and he'll come. She'll be reassured very quickly and fall back asleep, and in the morning is not the least bit disturbed (we've talked about it).
But despite being pretty resistant to being scared, of all things, she was scared watching the Care Bears movie the other day. I guess there's a witch in it and she was scared of her. She told her Daddy she was scared of the witch, and he asked why. She answered, "you only eat monsters." DH was very quick to understand what she meant, and immediately reassured her: "Daddy eats witches too... I eat them for SNACKS."
She was immediately and completely reassured. I asked her if she was scared, and she seemed barely interested to respond: nope. There is simply no lingering fear whatsoever.
The absolute trust she shows in her daddy is simply amazing. The trust is total. If he says he'll protect her from any witch that comes along, that's good enough for her, and she worries not a second more about it. I wonder if that's also why she's been so thick-skinned about monsters thus far, if the fact that I told her no monster was any match for Daddy was more than enough to banish any nightmares or fears.
