Scared grandaughter

Farnorth I think that illustrates very well how children mishear or misunderstand things that make them worry unnecessarily.

My little granddaughter, aged nearly 3, hates having her hair washed. She will scream the place down and really kick off. My daughter is heavily pregnant and finds this increasingly difficult. Myself and her husband have also tried but it causes so much distress that we've given up. Consequently she hasn't had her hair washed for nearly a month! Any tips gratefully received!

My sister had a stuffed toy crocodile, who slept under her pillow. His skills included eating nightmares and any monster who dared to go into the room.

sroge how about trying dry shampoo?

I slept with a light on until I lived with DH.

scroge is it water on her face she is afraid of? Children do sometimes develop this at her age. You can buy a thing that stops the shampoo or water going anywhere near her face
Loads of different ones- this is Tesco
www.tesco.com/direct/clippasafe-shampoo-eye-shield/114-3202.prd?source=others

I posted about this some time back but anyway for supernanaunal .......Many years ago when my oldest granddaughter was around 4-5 she developed a fear of going to bed. We had to open wardrobe doors and look under the bed, in the toy box, behind curtains etc. to check for monsters. This was passed directly onto her little sister then aged 3. She would wake up at night screaming that something was "getting her" or that she had seen a monster in her dreams. She had a very vivid imagination.

Subsequently "Sweet Dream Spray" was born.

I took a bottle of M&S Grapefruit and Ginger room spray, peeled the label off and made a new label for it complete with moons and stars and a pretty logo. The writing on the bottle said "Sweet Dream Spray for little Girls"...... 4 short sprays in the room to guarantee sweet dreams.....made in england...... etc. I even packaged it in a jiffy bag and they opened it eagerly.

They were so convinced that it worked, so it did. Moving on many years we have gone through several bottles and have had to adapt our logo a bit to include "little boys" but they are now 12,10 and 8 and I still use it every night they sleep at mine. Of course the girls know deep down that this is something that grandma made up (although I totally deny it of course) but they still remind me to spray it.

I like that one gillybob.

I dont know if this has already been suggested but some people make "monster repellent spray" (water & lavender oil) and put it in a spritz bottle. She could take this into other rooms with het and spray the room from the door before entering?

At 5 the imagination is VERY active & it can be morbid. You do hear some very dark themes from this age and they can talk about dark things with their friends. Thats not unusual

what a great idea gillybob