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By: Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D.

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I totally agree that children need sleep to be healthy mentally and physically. One of the biggest interferences with sleep is bad dreams. But fortunately, we know a lot about where nightmares and bad dreams originate. I am a child psychotherapist, parenting author (Smart Love) and now the author of a children’s picture book on bad dreams (Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream!). Dreams are “stories we tell ourselves for a reason.” In the case of bad dreams, the reason is usually unfinished emotional business from the day before. If parents help children to connect the bad dream with an upsetting experience they have had, children feel empowered rather than helpless and begin to treat dreams like puzzles that can be solved. This makes it possible for children to understand their own dreams without having to run to their parents’ room.


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