Tired parents are helping their children battle their bedtime nightmares - by hiring a £55-an-hour fairy princess.
Natalie Coles, 30, dresses as a fairy princess to visit children suffering with sleep problems and bedtime bad dreams.
Natalie - known as "Serenity" - promises to cure nightmares by sprinkling "fairy dust" to protect them from bad thoughts in their sleep.
Exhausted mums and dads have been willing to pay up to £55-an-hour for Natalie to put an end to their bedroom dramas.
Natalie said: "I came up with Serenity the Sweet Dreams Fairy - she will help protect you from dreams that are scary.
"The feedback from parents is that Serenity’s visits have worked and children that wouldn’t go to bed or suffered bad dreams are now snoozing sweetly.
"I wanted to create an original character and it was so important to me that she could help people."
Emma Walters, 41, whose daughter Freya, three, was suffering from bad dreams resulting in broken sleep for the whole family attended a workshop with Natalie.
Emma says she was sceptical at first but figured it was worth a try.
She said: “Poor Freya was suffering for weeks, she thinks she has lost mummy in her dreams, she’s scared of the baby monitor we use or just shadows in her room.
“This usually results in her climbing in with us.
“But after Serenity was so lovely during the event we took home a special bedtime book, dreamcatcher, fairy door and fairy dust and what a dramatic change.
“Now if Freya wakes up scared she just says: Serenity will take my baddie dreams away won't she mummy?’ and falls back to sleep.
“We are so glad to be getting more sleep and more importantly, giving us back a happy Freya who is not afraid of her room anymore.”
For £55 Serenity will give a one on one home visit to talk through a child’s worries in their own space.
Or for £45 parents can visit a sweet dreams workshop which includes afternoon tea for children, cream tea for adults, a decorate a fairy door craft session , a dream catcher complete with fairy lights ,fairy dust to take home and a signed copy of the serenity book.
Mum-of-two Natalie, who lives and works in Swansea, hopes to expand in the future to help children with other issues like anxiety or bullying.
She said: “The wellbeing of young people is something I am really passionate about.
“Before I worked as a children’s entertainer I was a stay at home mum with my two little boys.
“But I’ve always known that I wanted to help children and families and now I have the best job in the world as I’m not only making children happy
I am also helping their parents.
“Serenity’s story is also available for Schools to download teaching resources which will help spread sweet dreams all across the land."
