9 Tips For Helping Your Child Deal With Nightmares

If they'll let you, chat about the dream with them to try to figure out what about it is scaring them. There may be a way to help soothe them that specifically deals with that one individual dream. If they don't want to open up, don't push them to relive the dream, but share with them a bad dream you may have had recently and talk to them about how you handled it and reminded yourself that it was just happening in your head, not in real life.