Tips for Handling Night Frights
Night frights, or night terrors, are never a pleasant experience. If you are a parent who has experienced these, you know just how awful, absolutely exhausting, frustrating and heart-breaking it can be. Since experiencing them with our little Poppy, I took to the internet to figure out the best way to help her cope but all the information I found seemed to contradict each other or just didn't work for us. If you don't know, or would just like to be educated on night frights, a night fright is where a child wakes up in the night and seem to be awake, but cannot snap out of what seems like a nightmare. They may scream, cry, thrash around the bed. It ain't pretty. What Caused Her Night Frights: We started to notice that she had them when she had a particularly busy or active day, or when she was overly tired. She also seemed to have them when she'd be going through a growth spurt. Some nights we could anticipate her having them because of her activity or schedule fr...