Night Terrors: How to Help Your Child

I’ll never forget my brother’s phone call a few years ago. He was out of breath, and his voice trembled as he spoke to me. He explained that his young son had just gotten out of bed about an hour after being put down. The boy appeared awake, and his eyes were wide with terror. He also screamed in fear of something, and spoke with language that didn’t make sense. “His eyes looked right through me as if I weren’t there,” my brother said. The behavior chilled my brother to the bone. It was as though his son were possessed, … Continue reading