Today the girls had their Thanksgiving celebration at school. They had a "feast", and both tell me that don't like cranberry sauce and the "stuff with the marshmallows on it". They also made Pilgrim Hats, which they modeled tonight:
We also watched "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" tonight. The girls had a lot of questions – why were people sick on the Mayflower, why did the Indians die, why were they sad? I think they are a little young for it.
M is very worried about having bad dreams. I told the girls that if they had a bad dream, they should just call me. Not two minutes after I closed the door, A called me, "MOMMY!!!" I went back in, and she said, "I think I had a bad dream." I told her that I had only been gone for two minutes, and that there was no way she had been asleep.
No school until Monday!
When Tim was M&A’s age, I taught him a trick to ward off nightmares that has worked for me my entire life (so far). Anything that you consciously think about before bed, you will NOT dream about, because you’ve filed it in your conscious rather than your subconscious mind. So part of our bedtime ritual was this chant where we would take turns saying “No nightmares about [fill in the blank with potentially scary issue], please!” For example, “No nightmares about the Charlie Brown special or the Mayflower, please! No nightmares about almost falling off the jungle gym at recess today, please!”…and so on. It works really well, and even though he could theoretically have had nightmares about things he didn’t name, he generally didn’t. He didn’t give up this ritual until he was about 8.
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