diff --git a/lib/monitor/run.js b/lib/monitor/run.js
index 59657506..d33ae416 100644
--- a/lib/monitor/run.js
+++ b/lib/monitor/run.js
@@ -260,7 +260,12 @@ function run(options) {
       child.stdin.on('error', () => { });
       process.stdin.pipe(child.stdin);
     } else {
-      child.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
+      if (child.stdout) {
+        child.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
+      } else {
+        utils.log.error(`running an unsupported version of node ${process.version}`);
+        utils.log.error('nodemon may not work as expected - please consider upgrading to LTS');
+      }
     }
 
     bus.once('exit', function () {