My brave girl

We've long told Ilana that she doesn't have to watch everything on TV. She'd be watching something, and getting more and more scared, only to talk incessantly about it for the next few days and dream about it all night. So, I started emphasizing that she didn't need to watch everything on TV, and that she could turn away or just close her eyes. This is her solution:

It's hard for me to tell if she's feeling brave or just protected. Either way, it works for me. She still talks incessantly about "nice robots" (i.e. transformers) and "nice monsters." Those aren't scary so they're allowed to hang out.