If you dreamed that the child was getting smaller: You may find it difficult to control them, you will make an effort to improve your affairs. To see that a child is getting smaller in a dream means that one's older child is getting smaller, that his child has a problem or a health problem. It indicates that the dreamer should take early precautions, start treatments or learn about his distress and act accordingly. It is a harbinger that the person will go through a troubled process and will be forced.