[HPforGrownups] Re: Night fears from Harry Potter (Slightly OT!)

[Denise Rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 4368

Rita,
I like that poem now, but as a kid, my parents taught the typical Christian prayer, Now I lay me down to sleep....I disliked intensely the last two lines, if I die...  (Still shudders about those lines years later!)

At the age of Peg's daughter (7-9 years), I had a few nightmares due to movies (like Ichabod Disney's version that used to be on each Halloween used to scare me half to death!) or other things, (believe this or not) like the six o clock news!  (or the 11 o'clock, which I didn't get to see often)

I used to have nightmares about floods, tornadoes, and such...

but the most frequent one was fire.  I dreamt nightly about the house catching on fire.  Nothing anyone did would stop it.

It's the age.  

Dee

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rita Winston 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 9:42 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Night fears from Harry Potter


  --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:

  > But I was wondering . . . how about you other parents out there who
  > have read Harry Potter to your kids.  Have you encountered any 
  > night fears  due to the books?  How have you handled them?

  I don't have any children, but I remember that when I was a child, I 
  had night fears of the Black Riders (Nazgul) when I read Lord of the 
  Rings. I dealt with it by reciting the "Four posts around my bed,
  four angels round my head" nursery rhyme. Which was very helpful even 
  tho' my bed didn't have posts and I don't believe in the four 
  evangelists.

  Four post around my bed
  Four angels round my head
  Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
  bless the bed that I lay on
  and if I die before I wake
  I pray the Lord my soul to take.


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