4-year-old suddenly refuses to sleep in his room, months later, sleuthing mother finds out the cause: a Marvel poster: 'Evil face is gone!'

Kids have a funny way of convincing moms and dads that they've finally got this whole parenting figured out, only to rip the rug right out from under them in an instant. This 4-year-old went from happily snoozing in his Mario Kart bed to refusing to step foot in his room seemingly overnight. At first, mom and dad suspected that he might be having nightmares or that some animal on the roof was making noises late at night, but things didn't get better. Months of bedtime battles and tears every evening became the new normal until this mom's sleuthing skills finally figured it all out. The real culprit behind her son's boycott was a terrifying "evil face" lurking in plain sight. She's not sure which superhero or super villain of the hundreds pictured on the Marvel poster actually spooked her son, but she got rid of the whole thing anyway.

Kids' fears are finnicky in this way. When I was around that age, my favorite movie ever was The Mummy. By all accounts, that CGI mummy Imhotep should have given me nightmares, but I didn't think he was too bad. You know what did scare me enough to make me cry, though? Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Everything from the Cheshire cat to the pencil birds that erase Alice's path home made me want to cry. This just goes to show that you can baby-proof your home, but you can't stop a kid's imagination!

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Because kids aren't so good at articulating what's going on their heads and bodies, parenting does kind of feel like you're playing Sherlock Holmes all the time!
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At my wit's end. My son suddenly won't go in his room but won't tell us why

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Something similar happened to me with a Harry Potter poster. I wasn't exactly scared of it, but it kind of bothered me as a kid that Daniel Radcliffe was constantly watching me.
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