Not all Daddies are Doms are they?

Not all Daddies are Doms, are they, peapod?  Some of us are someone safe and welcoming, patient and warm to curl up with when you’re feeling small and helpless and just need a little break before going back out to tackle adulthood’s cold, cold world.

When you’re back is achy and your feeling a little bloated and broken out and you need all the chocolate and all the attention and you’re unaccountably horny too and you need someone who’ll squeeze your ass as well as rub your back and just not give you any shit about it cause you need it to be all about you for a few days…

Here are some tips on how to encourage a sleepy [Little] to nurse:

  • Loosen or remove [her] coverings
  • Look for signs that [she] is entering a ‘light sleep cycle’.
  • Dim the lights in the room.
  • Speak softly to [your Little] and try to make eye contact.
  • Increase stimulation.

— advice from the internet, lightly… um… edited

When they’re older, Littles are often able to get their own bottles before waking Daddy…

gimmedaddy241:

I can feel Daddy’s hard on even from the slightest movement

When you wake up before I do…

Best way to soothe a little post-nightmare? Or for a little herself to self soothe? Asking for a friend ????

Based on 20 years of parenting one of the very best ways to soothe… well… anybody who’s had a bad dream.

1) Make a physical change: if you’re by yourself sit up, go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, turn on a light.  If it’s your child, partner, or Little, it may be enough to take them in your arms and roll them across your body to the other side of the bed and then snuggle and kiss them.  You might offer them a drink of water, or to take them to the bathroom.  

In severe cases you may need to stop and read, watch a couple YouTube videos, or have a snack.  (I don’t recommend midnight snacking for various reasons but it’s a possibility.)

The point of physical change is to shake yourself or them out of “sleep mode” where dreams can linger in memory longer.  Unless you or they have serious sleep issues chances are very good that even after a sleep-cycle “reset” they’ll be back asleep in minutes.  Less time, in the long run, than if you or they lie awake shivering and mentally wrenched about the nightmare.

Ok, some other strategies that probably work better for adults than children.

2) “Complete the story.”  This is pretty standard advice from sleep therapists and psychologists, especially if the nightmares are recurring.  When you or they wake up from a nightmare it’s almost always at the scariest point… which also makes it the most ambiguous and unfinished point!  Telling “the rest of the story” might sound crazy since anxiety is so high, but psychologists say almost any ending can bring resolution.  With a child or Little you can encourage them to say “and then Daddy came and scooped me up and saved me” if that seems plausible and comforting to them.  But evidence suggests that even if you finish the story with “and then the sharks caught me and tore me to pieces” is still a resolution!  Although if the plausible and convincing completion is sad or scary then comforting “aftercare” becomes even more important.

Aaand… a strategy that’s only for consenting, legally competent adults

3) This being a heavily filtered Tumblr “Adult Content” blog that “may contain sensitive media” I’ll add that back when I had chronic nightmares that left me wide awak and rattled I found that masturbation was actually a pretty good way to reset things.  It definitely rebalances your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, it releases lots of yummy endorphins, dopamines, and oxytocin, and suppresses stress-related cortisol hormones, it makes you naturally relaxed and a little sleepy, and it feels really, really good!  An orgasm from masturbation with a little help from a big, comforting, sleepy Daddy’s touch – can be very soothing.  

What do you think?

Aftercare, duringcare, precare, don’tcare… what you call it, just do it!

Because D/Lg kink isn’t just about sex…