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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last week our smoke detector went off in the middle of the night, and since then our 2.5 year old has been pretty traumatized. I went to get her right away and calmed her down and put her back to sleep, but now everywhere we go she looks for smoke detectors and asks if there is going to be a fire and seems a bit worried about it. When she is with an adult she is fine, but every time we put her down for a nap or bed she screams and cries that there is going to be a fire and says she doesn't want to sleep with the alarm in her room. Of course we can't remove it, so we just keep telling her it was an accident and there is no fire (in addition to beeping it kept saying "fire fire"), but if there is a fire mommy and daddy will come in right away.

Anyone have thoughts for what else we can do? She is genuinely upset about it and it seems to be getting worse vs better.[/quote]

Just remove it from her room, and put it in the hallway outside her room instead.  She probably lies in bed looking up at it worrying.[/quote]

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