The bad and ugly of Ace's huge imagination?

A huge fear of anything remotely scary. This could include the diver in the zoo's coral reef speaking to the children through a microphone (scary man in scary outfit with a disembodied voice!). Or, of course, the Abominable Snowman.
We showed the girls Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer last year and both enjoyed it, although we had to be sure that during the Abominable Snow Monster scenes, we explained that he was just being silly. He was really a nice monster, simply irritable because of his painful bad teeth. See, he put the star on the tree at the end! This was fine and lovely and the girls, even Ace, were okay.
Not this year. We showed "Rudolph" to the girls on Saturday and Ace freaked about the Snow Monster. She had a terrible sleep Saturday night. Yesterday, she had a cough and bags under her eyes. Last night, I was up with her for about an hour around midnight because she was "scared of monsters." "The snow monster." Poor thing!
So, last night at midnight, Julie Andrews saved us.

I sang a bit of "My favorite things" and then we talked about all of Ace's favorite things, which she could think about instead of monsters. A good coping strategy since we will never be able to shield her from all scary things. Again, the good of a huge imagination? She thought up tons of favorite things!
Sunniva? She continues to be amazingly sensible. "It's just pretend!"


















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