What Avoidance Behaviors Are Telling You (And What To Say)
Avoidance isn’t always defiance. Learn what avoidance behaviors in kids usually mean and what to say in the moment, with simple scripts and tiny brave steps that help kids start again.
What Are the Sunday Scaries for Kids?
A gentle guide to understanding the Sunday Scaries in kids, why they happen, signs to watch for, and how tiny brave steps help children face Monday with confidence.
Signs of Holiday Anxiety in Sensitive Kids
Discover the most common signs of holiday anxiety in sensitive kids and learn how gentle routines, emotional coaching, and Yabbit the Rabbit help children feel safe, seen, and brave.
Why Children Hesitate Before Trying: What Yabbit Helps Kids Understand About the First Step
A child can want to try something and still freeze when it is time to begin. Understanding temperament, uncertainty, fear of mistakes, and avoidance can help parents see hesitation more clearly. Yabbit the Rabbit gives children a character who understands that difficult pause before the first step.
Helping Children Navigate Big Feelings. Yabbit the Rabbit.
Big feelings can overwhelm children, but with understanding, validation, and small brave steps, parents can guide their child through worry, frustration, and fear. Inspired by Yabbit the Rabbit’s journey in The Rabbit in the Moon, this heartfelt guide helps families support emotional resilience, one tiny hop at a time.
How to Teach Children to Regulate Big Feelings Through Calm, Connection & Routine
Learn simple, research-backed ways to help children regulate overwhelming emotions through calming routines, connection, and gentle emotional coaching.
Understanding Avoidance Behaviors in Children: How Nighttime Shapes Fear & Courage
Nighttime often magnifies children’s fears and avoidance behaviors. In this blog, I share why hesitation increases after sunset and how The Rabbit in the Moon uses color, emotion, and storytelling to help children build courage.
How Our Color Palette Helps Children Navigate Nighttime Fears
Nighttime often heightens children’s fears and avoidance behaviors. Here’s how the color palette in The Rabbit in the Moon guides young readers through those emotions and helps them feel safer in the dark.
Best Picture Books for Kindergarteners: Why The Rabbit in the Moon Is One of the Best
When parents search for the best picture books for kindergarteners, they are usually looking for more than a beautiful story. They want a book that helps with school starts, brave first steps, emotional language, and the moments when a child hesitates. That is exactly where The Rabbit in the Moon stands out.
Picture Books About Courage for Kids: Stories That Help Children Try Even When They’re Scared
The best picture books about courage for kids do more than tell children to be brave. These 15 read-alouds explore beginning, fear, mistakes, change, belonging, persistence, and the small acts of courage children practice every day.
SEL Books for Hesitant Kids: Teacher, Counselor, and Parent Read-Alouds That Actually Help
Some children do not need louder encouragement. They need better emotional language, safer first steps, and stories that actually understand hesitation. These SEL books for hesitant kids help teachers, counselors, and parents turn read-aloud time into something genuinely useful.
6 Mental Benefits of Reading to Children Every Night: Why Bedtime Stories Build More Than Literacy
Reading to children every night is more than a sweet bedtime habit. It can help build emotional security, language, attention, imagination, empathy, and confidence. For hesitant children, the right bedtime story can also make big feelings feel safer and tiny brave steps feel possible.
Treating Color as a Character: Final Color Palette Reveal for The Rabbit in the Moon
Rod delivered the final color palette for The Rabbit in the Moon, and it’s a major milestone. In our book, color isn’t just visual, it’s emotional, helping children work through nighttime fears, hesitation, and avoidance behaviors.