" I’m not scared "

When we stayed at Chez Making it Up earlier this year, Small showed Butterbean upstairs. He started of by saying ‘You don’t need to be scared, there is no crocodiles’ :-)

BB still now often says‘Im not scared’ when going up stairs. She did it earlier today when we went up the back stairs. And I heard her saying it in some game she was playing with the castle, whne she had soem character going up and down the steps :-)

Little things can have such an impact on young minds….

When Big was a lot smaller she started off on the “monsters under the bed” thing. I reckoned that if we weren’t careful she would end up scaring herself out of going to bed. Anyway, she and I agreed that there was a blue monster with green teeth called Norman, who lived under her bed, and was friendly, and kept all the other monsters away. Big even invented a family for him.

I can recall the look of horror on visiting child’s face when Big cheerily told about the monster who lived under her bed. :-)

(lol) has she heard ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’?