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.
The Psychology Behind Yabbit the Rabbit’s Hesitation
Yabbit’s hesitation isn’t just a story detail, it’s rooted in real child psychology. Learn why children freeze, avoid, or worry, and how small brave steps help build confidence.
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.
A Thanksgiving Reflection: One Year After My Mother’s Passing, and the Story She Inspired
This Thanksgiving marks one year since my mother’s passing. After months of grief, mythology research, and creative rebuilding, I finally wrote The Rabbit in the Moon, the story she always believed I could create.
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.
The Hardest Part of My Alzheimer’s Journey. And How It Shaped Yabbit the Rabbit
The hardest part of creating Yabbit the Rabbit wasn’t writing the book, it was moving my mother into memory care. This emotional story reflects on Alzheimer’s, caregiving, guilt, and how that moment shaped the legacy behind The Rabbit in the Moon.
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.
Children’s Books for Anxiety: 17 Picture Books That Help Worried Kids Feel Safer
The best children’s books for anxiety do more than calm a worried child. They help kids feel recognized, find language for big feelings, and imagine one small brave step forward. This guide helps parents and teachers choose the right picture book for the moment.
Picture Books About Overcoming Fear: Read-Alouds That Help Kids Take the First Brave Step
Looking for picture books about overcoming fear? These read-alouds help children understand worry, hesitation, bravery, mistakes, and the first small step forward.
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.
How My Dog Lou Helped Inspire Yabbit the Rabbit’s Character Design
When we hit a creative wall designing Yabbit the Rabbit, I took my dog Lou on long walks and found unexpected inspiration for our children’s book character.
How We Created Yabbit the Rabbit (and Made Him Stand Out)
A behind-the-scenes look at how we designed Yabbit the Rabbit to stand out among famous rabbit characters, with sketches and a video from The Rabbit in the Moon.
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.
Bringing The Rabbit in the Moon to Life Through Color: Early Illustration Tests
Rod shared the first color tests for The Rabbit in the Moon, and seeing the illustrations shift from outlines to atmospheric palettes is transforming the story. Here’s how color brings Yabbit the Rabbit’s world to life.
Nearly Finished! Reviewing 32 Page Illustrations for The Rabbit in the Moon
Rod and I are nearly finished outlining the 32 illustrations for The Rabbit in the Moon. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at our collaborative process, what we’ve learned, and our ongoing journey to finalize Yabbit the Rabbit’s design.
Creating Yabbit the Rabbit: Merging Fan-Favorite Character Designs
Our community voted on their favorite character sketches for Yabbit the Rabbit, and Rod has now combined the top choices into one design. Here’s how your feedback is shaping our children’s picture book character from the Rabbit in the Moon.