I don't have any children, but have noticed that people that do have night lights in the children's rooms that I have slept in. From my childhood remembrances, I don't remember needing any light or having any fear of monsters in the night, only storms that came up suddenly with a lot of lightning and thunder. And then I didn't quake in fear, only wished that they would be over soon so that it would be dark and quiet and I could go back to sleep.

When we plant monster stories in kid's minds and provide comforts like blankies and night lights, we are inadvertently creating fearful sissies instead of independent, outgoing children.

Ron