My daughter is having bad dreams a lot.....

Both of our children had 'night terrors'. I'm not exactly sure of their ages at the time, but both would scream and cry and wouldn't take any cuddles or comfort from us. One of my daughters would actually hit and kick me if I tried to cuddle her. It seemed as if she didn't know who I was. I would just hold her really close and whisper things to her like, 'it's ok, we're here with you', and 'you're safe' until she would finally calm down. Then she would go straight back to sleep and not remember anything in the morning. It's a very scary thing to witness, but they do grow out of it. Good luck.

I know this is going to sound kind of funny but when one of my children was younger she was having nightmares and I couldn't figure out what could be causing them because she was so young and then realized one day what was the problem . She was watching the movie " The Lion King " . I had noticed that she would cry when the father would die but never gave it a lot of thought at the time and would just rewind the movie to the beginning where she would realize the father was still alive . One day it dawned on me that it was probably this movie and I wouldn't let her watch it anymore . Beleive it or not the nightmares stopped . Often what seems so innocent to us , will scare a little one . This was a kids movie , never once did I figure she should not be watching it that it would scare her . She would get so excited when it would come on and would ask to watch it all the time . Having said this , try watching throughout the day if there is anything that your child does in play or watches or hears that might cause her to have nightmares at night . Wish I could be of more help as I still remember how horrible I felt . You feel so helpless when your child is scared or hurt and you just don't know how to help them . Best of luck

How does she sleep normally? My niece when she was younger could be sleeping and she'd start screeming,crying,kicking,punching,and everything you could think of. Theres nothing we could do for intell she woke up because no matter what we tried to do to wake her up it wouldn't work. So we'd have to sit there and hold her so that she couldn't hurt herself. This went for severial years. From about the time she was two tell she was aleast 6. She still has sleeping problems. She has such a hard time falling asleep now. They don't know what caused it or why she has such a hard time sleeping.

Sometimes different things in their environment can cause them to have bad dreams. I would suggest asking what the bad dreams are and maybe you can figure out what is causing them. It may be some type of TV they are watching, or something they hear in conversation in the home, or some fear that they have. My son was having nightmares once when we moved to a new place, and I finally figured out that the location of his bedroom was the problem. It was at the other end of the hallway and he was worried about intruders. I changed his bedroom to another room in the house and the dreams stopped. But the only way that I was able to figure out what the problem was to talk to him.