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Things We Tell The Girl to Keep Monsters Away

  • Posted by Clint
  • January 10, 2007

  • That’s why we painted your bedroom pink. Monsters hate pink.
  • Monsters don’t want to eat us. We taste awful.
  • When we bought the new house, we told the Realtor we wanted to live in a no-monster neighbourhood.
  • Monsters won’t come into your bedroom. Monsters are lazy and don’t like climbing stairs.
  • Monsters can’t come down chimneys because the people who make chimneys know how to make them to keep monsters out, but let Santa in.
  • Mom and Dad’s protect their kids from Monsters. That’s one of our jobs.
  • Bad monsters don’t like coming into houses with love in them. Bad monsters don’t like love.
  • Maybe the monsters are lonely? Maybe they want to be your friend?

In addition, we hung some nazar (blue eye) amulets we got when we traveled in Turkey a few years ago. We told he that those were designed to keep away monsters. So far, no monsters, so everything looks like it is working as it should.

Related posts:

  1. Monsters – The Sequel Over at Daddy Daze, Dave has blogged a nice piece in response to my post from a few days ago...
  2. Monsters Under Bed Easter passes and, like at Christmas, I can’t help but wonder how much I am messing with my kids psyche...
  3. The Girl Effect Brian at RebelDad tipped me off to this video and the website The Girl Effect. It’s a very nice piece...

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Inside Fatherhood
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January 11, 2007 at 6:40 am

[...] What reminded me of this is over at Dadventure, he lists out a bunch of things he tells his daughter to assure her there aren’t any monsters. [...]

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When do monsters become scary? « Daddy Daze
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January 16, 2007 at 11:44 am

[...] Dadventure is working on the problem as well, and he lists some of the tactics he’s been using. A couple of the more amusing items on his list include: “That’s why we painted your bedroom pink. Monsters hate pink” and “Monsters don’t want to eat us. We taste awful.” [...]

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dadventure.ca - » Monsters - The Sequel
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January 16, 2007 at 9:31 pm

[...] Over at Daddy Daze, Dave has blogged a nice piece in response to my post from a few days ago called Things We tell The Girl to Keep the Monsters Away. Says Dave (who has a 3 year old going thru a similar monster phase as we are with The Girl): Dadventure is working on the problem as well, and he lists some of the tactics he’s been using. A couple of the more amusing items on his list include: “That’s why we painted your bedroom pink. Monsters hate pink” and “Monsters don’t want to eat us. We taste awful.” [...]