Through dreams, parents may gain a deeper understanding of what a child is thinking, feeling, and needing.

Through dreams, parents may gain a deeper understanding of what a child is thinking, feeling, and needing. A child, for instance, with recurrent dreams of being naked in public may be feeling self-conscious and may require special sensitivity when she's in a public situation. They discuss common dream themes and ways to talk with your child about their dreams (don't.

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Dreams are a regular part of every child’s life and a powerful resource for .

Dreams are a regular part of every child’s life and a powerful resource for every parent. Dreamcatching is the first comprehensive dreamwork book covering children’s first reported dreams around age two into adolescence. This practical guide to children’s dreams shows parents how to learn the hopes and fears that their children may not be able to articulate and to nurture their children’s creative, problem-solving, intellectual, and spiritual natures.

Kelly Bulkeley is the author of several books on psychology, religion, and dreams.

Children’s Dreams offers practical advice about how adults can best communicate with children about dreams to offer reassurance and to cultivate a child’s imagination and development. Kelly Bulkeley is the author of several books on psychology, religion, and dreams.

Alan Siegel and Kelly Bulkeley, writing in their book, Dreamcatching: Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and . Preventing Nightmares

Preventing Nightmares.

Excerpted from Dreamcatching: Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children's Dreams and Nightmares. Random House: Three Rivers Press c 1998. Our children do not have to suffer their nightmares in silence, brooding about the lingering feeling of suffocation left by the formless ghost or shuddering at the memory of the razor-sharp teeth of a pack of wolves ripping into their flesh. There are remedies for even the most dreadful nightmares.

Dream Catching : Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children's Dreams and Nightmares

Dream Catching : Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children's Dreams and Nightmares. Explains how children's dreams can reveal the hopes and fears they are unable to express, and tells how parents can use their children's dreams to nurture their creative and problem-solving abilities.

Some of the dreams we have in childhood become lifelong touchstones of emotion and feeling and identity, says psychologist Kelly Bulkeley, author of several books on dreaming, including Dreamcatching: Every Parent’s Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children’s Dreams and Nightmares. We face a new situation, and our minds cast about and go back to that earlier situation for some guidance or a framework of meaning for what’s going on now. Childhood dreams are the early anticipations of some of the big existential things humans deal with - sex, death, conflict, family strife, he adds.

A Parents' Guide to Understanding Children's Dreams and Nightmares. This book will help you value dreams-and maybe set the stage for a child’s receptivity to God’s truths. -Diane Jackson Wife of John Paul Jackson, founder of Streams Ministries and creator of the TV program Dreams & Mysteries. A child with regular nightmares can easily be dismissed by professionals as just overly imaginative or too sensitive. But for any parent at their wits' end over their child's suffering from dreams and nightmares, a deeper understanding is needed. Is it possible that a spiritual dimension is at play?