Have you ever been afraid of monsters underneath your bed?
There are many ways to get rid of the monsters with the various creative methods found on the internet, and one of them found its way into one little girl’s hand in helping her battle her fears.
The father of a little girl came up with a creative way to get rid of the “monsters” that lurked underneath his daughter’s bed, according to CTV News.
He got her a “monster spray” to help her combat her fear of the monsters lurking in her room and enable her to get quality sleep.
Mya Watson, a 2-year-old girl from British Columbia, was scared of the monsters underneath her bed. She would lie on her bed, awake and fearful because she was convinced that they were there.
Although there were movies and television shows out there to help children ease their fear about monsters, the monsters in Mya Watson’s room was nothing like the ones on television, and they were very much scary to her.
“At night time, she was always saying there were monsters in her room, there was something here, something there,” said her father, Aaron Watson.
At night time, she didn’t want to go to bed—Mya Watson wanted someone to snuggle with her. Amber Dixon, Mya Watson’s mother, told CTV News that the fear started to affect her sleep.
When she told her parents of her fears, they tried to soothe her and told her not to worry.
“We have been trying to tell her for a while that they’re trying to be her friends and not to worry,” said her father.
No matter what her parents did, or what they told her, she was still convinced that the monster did not want to be her friends.
Her father saw how scared she was and came up with a way to get rid of her fears. He went to the local pharmacy and bought a bottle of “monster spray.” He needed something that would be able to help his daughter with the monsters as well as her sleeping problems.
It would surely ease Mya Watson’s fears.
The pharmacist there at the time, Dee Vivian, printed the labels for the “monster spray” and stuck it on to the bottle.
“I thought it was really cute,” Vivian told CTV News, “I was like, ‘oh, that’s a neat idea, and I hope it works.'”
The “monster spray” was made up of special monster fighting material, according to Watson, he said the spray was made up of water, and a lavender scent was put into the spray to make it smell good, and soothe her fears.
In addition, to make it as believable, the prescription label read: “spray around bedroom at night before bedtime and repeat if needed.”
The bottle even came with a possible side-effect label that read, “may cause drowsiness or dizziness.”
Mya Watson was ready to fight the monsters that terrified her.
Equipped with the monster-fighting spray, Mya Watson was now in control of the monsters, not the other way around. Now, monsters are the ones terrified of the 2-year-old. Mya Watson often takes her parents on monster-fighting adventures.
“She’ll come to me and say, ‘Daddy…monster over there!’, and I’ll say oh yeah, you better go get him,” her father said.
Mya Watson would get her bottle of “monster spray” and aim at the monsters, her father said, and then assure him that the monsters were gone.
Others heard of the special “monster spray” made for Mya Watson and also wanted to buy the “monster spray” for their own children’s bedrooms.
“We’ve had a couple of requests for them, so we’ve got a few bottles made so it’s easy for people to just grab one if they come by,” Vivian said.
According to Mya Watson’s father, he said that they’ve used 2o to 30 refills since he bought the spray at the pharmacy, and that it was a small price to pay for a monster-free home and a good night’s sleep for both Mya Watson and her parents.
“[Mya] goes to bed and sleeps through the night,” her father said, “so I guess it is working!”