Our oldest son used to have lots of nightmares. I think he still has them, but for the most part he deals with them himself.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, we had a bizarre episode. The big guy woke us up in the middle of the night, banging through our bedroom door and running right to our bed.<\/p>\n
“Are you okay?” I asked.<\/p>\n
He didn’t say anything, just crawled into our bed.<\/p>\n
“Nightmare?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Wanna talk?”<\/p>\n
“It was a giant bacteria and everything it touched turned into a bacteria and we were shooting at it, but it wasn’t stopping.”<\/p>\n
“Yikes,” I said. “Where did that come from?”<\/p>\n
He closed his eyes and nestled into his momma. “The dentist movie.”<\/p>\n
I found out the next day that they had watched a movie at school about the importance of brushing, complete with animated bacteria attacking the teeth.<\/p>\n
He’d had a nightmare about a dental hygiene movie.<\/p>\n
Note to self: keep son away from the evening news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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