Remember when you were little
and it was dark, and you needed the loo?

Remember how you used jump 10 foot to door from your bed, run to the loo and then run back to bed jumping another 10 feet from the door to the bed so the scary underbed monster couldn't grab your feet all the while inside you feel like you are going to explode with fear which is tinged with a little excitement. And finally getting in bed and hiding under your covers laughing triumphantly that you've beaten the underbed monster once more.

I caught my 4 year old doing this the other night. It was about 2am and I heard his little feet stampede across the landing, a little giggle while he was having a wee and finally the leap to success, I had to investigate it so I got up and listened in through his door only to hear him do a little giggle under his covers and then I heard a triumphant little whispered "Yessssssssssss" and I imagined him punching the air at the same time.

I can't explain why, but I felt incredibly proud and amused that my son has finally experienced this bit of his childhood, another right of passage of childhood.
( Mrs. Spatum, Sat 25 Jul 2009, 11:46, 5 replies)

Perhaps next time...
Get under the bed next time he has a wee and then grab his ankles when he jumps back in.

No, I am not a father.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Sat 25 Jul 2009, 11:54, closed)

Oh I lolled!
I've been both sides of this one, I spend each night with my 4yo telling him how I used to do exactly the same thing, but I also remember hiding under my sisters bed, waiting for the lights to go out, then slowly scratching with my fingernails at the struts on the bottom of the bed!
The best one was when I had my arm up the side of the bed as it were, and when she reached for her sock, grabbed her arm, scared the living shit out of her! (Explains her a lot, now I feel guilty)
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 25 Jul 2009, 11:58, closed)

i used to do this a lot
but rather than the monster under the bed it was the sharks that inhabited the carpet
( weaver., Sat 25 Jul 2009, 13:44, closed)

Wow
Someone else with the "sharks in the carpet" thing. I've never ever managed to convince anyone else about them, and I am so happy to have someone else who thought that too.

I still think we're weird though.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Wed 29 Jul 2009, 13:44, closed)

Right... hide under bed and grab child = brilliant scary joke
with my first child due in a month, these are the kind of tips you just dont find in any books, but which are conversely exactly the kind of things I need to know. Keep 'em coming!
( difficultchild, Sun 26 Jul 2009, 3:38, closed)