Susan Dennon’s young son Jason had such a problem. Every night Jason would fight bedtime because of the hazards of making his way from the light switch to the covers. He’d turn down the covers (because as we all know, no monster can reach you under the covers), make his way to the light, and then turn off the light and run to the bed and jump under the covers. Yet, every night he lived in fear that he would not be able to make the long trek from the light switch to the bed, and then under the covers in time to avoid some unforeseen nightmare just waiting to pounce upon some poor unsuspecting five year old. "Unfortunately, adult reasoning doesn’t hold a candle to the intricacies of the five year old mind," Susan says.

But she wasn’t going to allow her son to be terrorized by the sinister forces trespassing in her son’s room, and intruding on his sleep. So she took drastic action. "I hooked up a lamp in his room to an ActiveHome Controller, and I hooked up a lamp in the hall to an ActiveHome controller. Then I gave him a SlimFire Remote to turn on and off the lights."

That’s right, she put the power into Jason’s hands. Now, he has the ultimate weapon when it comes to expelling nighttime terrors. He has the power to turn on the lights. And right there from under the covers where no monster can ever penetrate. Once that light is on, no matter how bright, no monster will have a chance.

"Not only has the scary darkness been taken away," Susan says, "he’s often so preoccupied with the remote, that it completely takes his mind off his fear of the darkness."

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