It happens that after nightmares a child is afraid to fall asleep again. It may seem to him that monsters from past dreams will come to him again. Or he thinks that someone dangerous is hiding in his room. Together with him, you can create a protector for him who will protect his sleep and help him cope with night terrors. Step 1: Meet the protector You can start with some kind of impromptu fairy tale. For example...One princess was afraid to sleep because she constantly had nightmares. As soon as the king father or queen mother turned off the light, her room was filled with monsters, some hid under her bed, and sometimes they came to her in her sleep and wanted to drag her away with them. No one could help the poor princess: neither her mother nor her father , neither healers, nor sorcerers, nor the best advisers. And then one day the king went on business to a neighboring kingdom, and his path lay through a dense forest. It was rumored that various monsters lived in it, and the king took all his guards to confront them. Imagine his surprise when the forest greeted him with golden sunlight and the joyful singing of birds. There were no terrible monsters. When the king saw a random traveler, he asked him where all the monsters that lived in the forest had gone? To which the traveler replied that they had been caught by the Nightmare Thief, who lived nearby. The king came to the Nightmare Thief and asked if he could help their daughter. The Nightmare Thief agreed, but on the condition that the little princess would share with him all the nightmares that come to her and would not keep them for herself. That's what they agreed on. Soon after the Nightmare Thief settled in the kingdom, the princess stopped being visited by monsters, and she was finally able to start seeing sweet dreams. Step 2: Creating a defender It can be drawn and hung on the wall or molded from plasticine and other materials - at your discretion. Children, as a rule, have a very good understanding of what the Nightmare Thief might look like (however, you can choose a different name for the protector). The child can draw or make it himself. Sometimes he asks you to do it, then he just guides the process, but you can also draw it yourself and give it to your child, explaining that now the Nightmare Thief will guard his sleep. Sometimes the Nightmare Thief isn't enough. Ask your child who else could help him. Perhaps he could use, for example, the Fairy of Sweet Dreams or another protector. Basically, use your imagination.!