Sleep Tight, Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite!

For my entire life, I have always had this fear of bugs, but the biggest fear that I have with them is holy cow are they in my bed at night? During this class I learned that bedbugs are in fact a thing, and they are very common. When I was younger and my parents would say to me “ sleep tight don’t let the bed bugs bite!” I always had this image of all of these nasty large bugs crawling all over my legs and biting me when they would say that. It haunted me for life. To this day, bedbugs scare me! Obviously I can not be too afraid of them and let them affect my life much anymore, because there really is nothing that we can do about them. We can clean our sheets and bedding as much as possible, but the truth is bedbugs will most likely still be existent. During this course when I started to realize this, I became a little less afraid of them. All they can do to me is bite me in the night, and they are so small that they are extremely hard to see. They still freak me out, but they do not scare me nearly as much as they used to. 

I am not sure if I have ever been bit by a bedbug, but I am sure that I have, for I have woken up with itchy red bug bites before not knowing how or where I got them from. In the future, just because that dumb bedtime phrase freaked me out so much and scarred me for life, I will not be telling that saying to my children. I do not want my kids to ever have that terrible image in their head of these nasty bugs! There are just some things that kids do not need to know about, and these are definitely one of them! 

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