2 Yr Old Having Bad Dreams

well my name is C. and i have a five year old and a three month old what i would do is tell her that swiper is just fake and just very silly and see if it works if not try to watch blues clue or another show

hi C.
just as an example, my twin girls love watching nemo but they are afraid of that big fish that hurts nimo's mom, and they would scream when that part of the movie was on, scream and run into the kitchen but then they would cry as well when i would turn off nimo. well then i went and got two dvd's of winnie and the tigger thing and they love it. they asked for nimo a couple of times, even tears would follow for nimo but i just never put it back on. so my suggestion is show her something else. my two year old girls love for example little bear, and they love max and ruby and love wonder pets (lots of singing) and jack's music show. so just try to get her to watch any or all of these and see if she forgets dora. i personally dislike dora way to much. my girls loved the fox as well but i just didn't, so chose something else
good luck see if this works
vlora

Other moms suggested changing what she watches, but if she's a die hard fan that might be hard to do.

I know in some of the Dora DVDs, and it may only be one or two, Swiper isn't bad. He helps Dora find whatever they are looking for in those one or two episodes. I will see if I can find them, but maybe if she sees Swiper being good it will change he dreams? I'll ask my daugther if she can remember which ones they are.

Also, I don't know if you read to her before bed but reading a super happy book might help take her mind off Swiper. And maybe making sure her Swiper toys are put away in a drawer or something so she can't see them from her bed?

EDIT: I asked my Daughter, and she went thru her DVD's and said that in the DVD 'City of Lost Toys', episode 'The Lost City' Swiper loses something of his own and is nice to Dora and Boots. Maybe this will help?

Change what she is watching. We had this problem with my son and Madagascar, once he stopped watching the problem went away. He now loves the Little Einsteins or Baby Tad movies. On television the Backyardigans or WonderPets work for him.

Good luck.

P.S. I also have a 2 year (boy) old in Ft. Pierce, e-mail me if you want to try to get together for a playdate. ____@____.com

Hi C. My name is P.

C. I remember very well when I was a little we had a hughe easter bunny, he sat in the living room area of my home, I grew up in a very large family, it was ten of us, we didn't have proper sleeping space so many of us slept in the dinning room area and I was one of them. The first thing I'd see when I wake would be the rabbit and the last thing I'd see before going to sleep woulkd be the bunny. Consequently this would cause me to dream about the rabbit, bad dreams. C. try reading her bed time stories. I would read my kids bible stories before they would go to sleep. This would cause the to sleep very pleasantly. I never had problems with them in the night with there sleep, And it's six of them. Also make sure the book has great illustration.