When I was writing these 8 bedtime stories, I wasn’t thinking like a physician.
I wasn’t thinking like a psychologist.
I wasn’t thinking about theory at all.

I let the child in me take the lead.

Children already know how fear feels.
They don’t need it explained or softened.
They need company.
They need a voice nearby.
They need a story that stays with them while they feel it.

That is what these stories try to do.

Not teach.
Not protect.
But sit beside.

That instinct didn’t come from training.
It came from remembering what it was like to be small, awake in the dark, and listening.