Bedtime Anxiety in Kids: What to Say and What to Do
What to say and what to do when your child has bedtime anxiety, including scripts, tiny brave steps, and a simple calming ritual you can use tonight.
How The Rabbit in the Moon Was Born (as told by TribLIVE)
A behind-the-story companion to the TribLIVE feature on The Rabbit in the Moon, sharing how Yabbit’s message of tiny brave steps was born and why it became a keepsake for families.
Why Rabbits Make the Best Characters for Toddler Emotional Growth
A parent-friendly guide to why rabbit characters are perfect for toddler emotional intelligence, helping children name big feelings and build courage through tiny brave steps.
How to Help a Child Who Refuses to Try New Things
If your child refuses to try new things, the first move is not more pressure. This parent guide explains why refusal often hides fear, how to respond in the moment, and how tiny brave hops help hesitant children begin.
Tiny Brave Steps: How to Start the New Year With More Courage
A gentle New Year’s guide for families: practical tiny brave steps that help kids (and parents) move through hesitation and start the year feeling more confident.
New Year’s Eve: How Adults Can Overcome Hesitation and Avoidance in 2026
A powerful New Year’s Eve reflection on why adults avoid what matters and how to move forward in 2026 with tiny brave steps, routine anchors, and self-trust.
5 Ways Yabbit the Rabbit Makes Bedtime Easier for Parents
Bedtime often becomes the hardest part of the day because children are tired, emotions are louder, and separation feels bigger. Yabbit the Rabbit helps parents make bedtime calmer with emotional language, tiny brave steps, and a repeatable story ritual.
Avoidance Behaviors During Christmas Break: How to Help Sensitive Kids
A practical, parent-friendly guide to why sensitive kids show more avoidance during Christmas break and how to respond with calm routines and tiny brave steps.
The Best Christmas Gift for Sensitive Kids: The Rabbit in the Moon
A heartfelt guide to why The Rabbit in the Moon makes a powerful Christmas gift for sensitive kids, supporting bedtime anxiety, big feelings, and tiny brave steps.
How to Help a Child Who Is Afraid to Try
A compassionate guide to helping children who are afraid to try new things, using gentle strategies that build bravery one small step at a time.
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.
Bedtime Anxiety in Toddlers and Young Children: What Helps When They’re Afraid of the Dark
Fear of the dark can appear suddenly in toddlers and young children, turning a familiar bedtime into questions, clinginess, repeated check-ins, and requests to keep the lights on. Here is how parents can make nighttime feel more predictable without dismissing the fear or allowing anxiety to take over the bedtime routine.
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.
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.