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Nightmares and terrors: can the Irish fairy really help?

As a child, I vividly remember having nightmares, nothing out of the ordinary, except dreams that scared me enough to worry if they would come back every night. Even though my room was on the second floor of our townhouse, it seemed to me that my parents downstairs were reading the evening papers and were sitting a mile away. What if my nightmare comes back tonight, is something going to happen to me? How will my parents listen to me? I hope I don’t have nightmares tonight. These were my thoughts when I was an 8 year old, my mom used to tell me “you’ll be fine, nothing will happen to you” Bedtime for me was always a worrying time. I started feeling anxious the moment I got home from school. No one really understood how I felt about my nightmares, but then what could they do?

Now in my mid-forties, I run my own business and am also a foster parent for over 10 years. I have witnessed children from all walks of life and all with different needs.

Each child deals with their trauma in different ways, some may lock up their thoughts for life, others express their feelings and thoughts quite freely. I can say from my experience as a foster caregiver that most of our children have experienced nightmares and night terrors and can become anxious at bedtime. Most children outgrow them when they grow up, but that doesn’t comfort them much when they are too young to understand this.

As a parent with children suffering from night terrors, every effort was made to reduce these episodes, reading before bed, not reading before bed, no television, no excitable games before bed. Some nights we thought our strategies were working only to find bad dreams returning to others.

I came across a booth supplying Irish fairy doors at a trade show that I attended for my business. I was drawn to this booth because of the concept of the product and what the product could offer me as a foster parent and not because of my purpose of being there as a retailer. My trip home from the trade fair was filled with thoughts about fairy doors and the power they can have to help so many children not only suffering from night terrors but being separated from their parents, grieving, the list is endless.

So what is a fairy door? It is exactly that, a small door that a child places at home or in the garden and then waits for the fairy to arrive. Once the magic key has been left out and the whole family has signed the Fairy Central agreement, we just wait for the key to disappear, this is the sign that your fairy has moved.

Your child’s fairy will only come out when he is asleep and will help to blow away any bad dream breezes they see on the bedroom ceiling. If the dreams become intense and disturbing for the child, the fairy will leave a fairy note outside the door for your child to read, usually something like this.

“Ben, I’ve tried really hard to keep the breezes off bad dreams, but they keep coming back. I think it’s time I asked for help.” The story goes on to explain how your son’s fairy is going to the fairy center for more help to blow the breezes from bad dreams.

Your child’s imagination will allow him to believe that his fairy understands that he is having nightmares. The fairy left her son a note how else they would know they have nightmares. Someone they believe really knows what they are going through and someone they can trust.

These fairy doors have helped children to overcome grief and all other affairs and problems. Is your child being bullied at school? You may not be aware of this, but did they leave a note and tell their fairy? Is there a solution that you can pass through your fairy? The benefits of having a fairy door are endless.

In my role as foster parent, these doors will be invaluable in my home, their fairy may be the only thing our children can confine and trust for help and guidance.

All you need to do is believe.

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