I am at my wits end with Aiden, I think I have mentioned this before with his fear of the bathroom light.

But now he has brought this fear to his bedroom light. It does not matter if it's turned on or off, but he always walks into his room and the first thing he looks at is the light. He never walks directly underneath it, and when it's bedtime he freaks out (he is on the top bunk so obviously high up close to the ceiling and the "light")

He screams and cries that he is scared, and he really gets worked up. He won't tell me what it is about the light that scares him, just that he is scared of it. I have told him that the light is his friend (this has worked with getting him to take showers instead of baths etc) but it's not working.

I know he is trying to use it as an excuse to get into my bed, or have me stay there until he falls asleep.

Any idea's on how I can get him to not be "scared" of the light anymore?

I don't know how your light is set up but have you thought maybe have him help take it apart and "change" the light bulb. Let him see there is nothing there that can hurt him at all and make him apart of "fixing" the light and maybe he won't be so frightened :dunno:

hmmm, I don't think it would hurt to try it! At this point I am willing to do anything .. thanks.

Well I didn't get the chance to do it with him today but for some odd reason he went down with no fuss for a change, I guess from this display I can safely say that he is using it as a ploy to avoid going to bed :nod: sneaky little buggers. I am just going to see how it goes, if he brings it up again I think I will just tell him that he had no problems with it the other night, so he obviously knows the light is his friend and see where they leads us ... kids!

Well I am glad he went to bed without a problem!