Bedtime stories that help your child find their own way.

A personalized book for the emotions that don’t have words yet.

THIS BOOK DOESN'T EXIST YET

It's written when you order it.
Every word.
Every illustration.
Every page.

This is not a template with your child's name swapped in. Every word and every illustration is created from scratch for your child — their name, their character, the challenge they're facing. No two books are ever alike.

$32.99

A 32-page printed picture book, with a guide for you inside. For ages 3–6.

Create a book where your kid is the hero of their own emotional struggle.

And discover how to help them through it.

ARTWORK FROM A HANDCRAFTED UNIVERSE

A whole world waiting for them.

Every story unfolds in the same paper-craft universe: familiar friends, familiar rivals, new adventures.

EVERYDAY CHALLENGES

Whatever emotion they're facing, there's a story for that.

Bedtime resistance

Your child fights sleep every single night, turning a 10-minute routine into an exhausting hour-long negotiation.

It’s 8:30 PM and you haven’t sat down once. Another glass of water, another trip to the bathroom, another "just one more story." You can hear your show paused in the other room. Your evening doesn’t exist anymore.
You’ve tried everything. The calm voice, the firm voice, the night light, the white noise. Nothing sticks for more than a week. Last night you fell asleep on their floor again and woke up at 2 AM with a sore neck and the TV still on in the living room.
Your partner and you take turns, but it always ends the same way: one of you gives in, the other gets frustrated about it, and by the time the kid is finally asleep, you’re too annoyed with each other to enjoy the rest of the night.

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Tantrums

Your child explodes over the smallest things, like a broken cracker or the wrong cup, and you’re left standing there wondering what just happened.

You’re at the grocery store and your child is screaming on the floor because you put the bananas in the wrong bag. Everyone is staring. You can feel your face burning. You don’t know if you should pick them up, walk away, or just abandon the cart entirely.
It was a good morning until you said "no" to a second popsicle. Twenty minutes later they’re still screaming, you’re locked in the bathroom trying to breathe, and you’re Googling "is this normal for a 4 year old" for the third time this month.
The meltdowns are getting worse and you’ve started avoiding playdates, restaurants, even the park. Last week you snapped and yelled louder than they did. The look on their face made you feel terrible for the rest of the day.

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Morning chaos

Every morning is a race against the clock that you keep losing. Shoes, teeth, coat, bag. The day starts in stress before it even begins.

You laid everything out the night before. Clothes on the chair, bag by the door, breakfast planned. By 7:45 your child is still in pajamas, crying because the socks "feel weird," and you’re already late for the third time this week.
You asked them to put their shoes on eleven minutes ago. They’re building a Lego tower. You’ve gone from patient to pleading to yelling in under five minutes, and now everyone is in a bad mood for drop-off.
Your partner left early for work, so it’s just you. You’re trying to make lunch, brush their hair, find the lost glove, and keep the younger one from eating dog food. All while they argue about which jacket to wear. You arrive at school sweating and already exhausted.

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Defiance

Your child says "no" to everything: getting dressed, brushing teeth, leaving the house. Every small request turns into a power struggle.

You asked them to come to the table. They said no. You asked again. They said no louder. You picked them up and now they’re kicking. Dinner hasn’t even started and you’re already drained.
They used to listen. Now every single thing is a negotiation: shoes, jacket, seatbelt, hand-washing. You spend your day managing one tiny battle after another and by bedtime you have nothing left for yourself.
The school mentioned they’re "testing boundaries" in class too. You and your partner disagree about whether to be stricter or softer, and that disagreement has started spilling into your own arguments at night.

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Picky eating

Your child refuses almost everything you cook, and every meal has become a stressful standoff instead of family time.

You spent an hour making dinner. They took one look and said "I don’t like this." They’ve been eating plain pasta for three weeks. You’re exhausted, you feel like a short-order cook, and you’re quietly terrified about nutrition.
Birthday party last weekend. Every other kid ate pizza and cake. Yours sat with an untouched plate looking miserable. Another parent gave you advice you didn’t ask for. You smiled and changed the subject.
You tried the "no pressure" approach and the "one bite" rule and hiding vegetables in smoothies. Nothing works for more than a few days. Last night you caught yourself bribing with dessert and felt terrible about it.

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Screen dependency

Screens have become the only way to buy yourself a moment of peace, but taking them away triggers an explosion every single time.

You handed them the iPad so you could make a phone call. That was two hours ago. Now you’re trying to take it back and they’re screaming like you took away their best friend. You feel guilty for giving it and guilty for taking it.
They don’t want to play outside, don’t want to draw, don’t want to build anything. The only thing that works is a screen. You watch other kids playing creatively and wonder what you did wrong.
You and your partner fight about screen time more than anything else. One of you gives in during the hard moments, the other resents it. The rules change depending on who’s more exhausted, and your child has figured that out.

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Sibling rivalry

Your kids fight constantly. Over toys, over attention, over who got more. You spend your day refereeing instead of parenting.

You poured the exact same amount of juice in the exact same cups. One of them still screamed "that’s not fair." You’ve been settling disputes since 7 AM and it’s not even lunchtime. You wonder if they’ll ever just… get along.
Since the baby arrived, your older child has been acting out. Hitting, regressing, demanding the bottle. You feel like you’re failing both of them: not enough attention for the big one, not enough calm for the little one.
You broke up the same fight four times today. The fourth time, you yelled and sent them both to their rooms. Then you sat in the kitchen feeling awful because you know one of them started it and the punishment wasn’t fair.

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Separation anxiety

Every goodbye is a heartbreak. Your child clings, cries, and begs you not to leave, and you drive away with a knot in your stomach.

Drop-off took twenty minutes again. You had to peel their fingers off your coat while they screamed. The teacher says they’re fine within two minutes, but that doesn’t erase the image of their face from your mind for the rest of the morning.
You turned down a dinner invitation because last time you left them with grandma, they cried for an hour. You haven’t had an evening out in months. You’re starting to wonder if you’re making it worse by always staying.
They started a new activity, soccer, swimming, whatever, and you can’t even leave the room. You sit in the corner for the whole session while every other parent drops off and leaves. You feel trapped and you don’t know if pushing them is brave or cruel.

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Hitting & biting

Your child hits, bites, or pushes other kids when frustrated, and you live in fear of the next incident report or angry parent.

The daycare called again. Your child bit someone during free play. The other parent is upset. You apologized, hung up, and sat in your car for ten minutes feeling like the worst parent alive. At home, they’re sweet. You don’t understand the disconnect.
They pushed a kid at the playground yesterday. The other mom gave you a look that said everything. You grabbed your child, left the park early, and spent the drive home oscillating between anger and shame.
Last week they hit you in the face during a tantrum. It hurt. You held it together in front of them but cried in the bathroom afterward. You’re starting to wonder if something is actually wrong, and that thought scares you.

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Fear of the dark

Your child is terrified when the lights go out. Monsters, shadows, noises. Bedtime has become a nightly battle with invisible enemies.

You’ve checked under the bed, in the closet, behind the curtain. You’ve shown them there’s nothing there. They still can’t sleep. You’ve been lying next to them every night for three months and your back is wrecked.
The nightmares started a few weeks ago and now they’re every night. They wake up screaming at 2 AM, come to your bed, and nobody sleeps. You’re running on fumes and snapping at everyone during the day.
They won’t go upstairs alone, won’t use the bathroom if the hallway is dark, won’t sleep at grandma’s house. You’ve tried night lights, monster spray, and leaving the door open. Some nights it works. Most nights it doesn’t.

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Potty accidents

Potty training has stalled, regressed, or never quite clicked, and the daily accidents are wearing down everyone’s patience.

They were doing great for two weeks, and then the accidents started again. At school, at home, in the car. You’re doing laundry constantly. You don’t say anything to them, but inside you’re frustrated and confused about what went wrong.
They’re almost 5 and still in pull-ups at night. The sleepovers are starting and they can’t go. You can see they’re embarrassed. You want to help but every approach you’ve tried has either failed or made things tense.
The preschool hinted they need to be "reliable" by September. You feel the deadline approaching and the pressure building. You bought three different potty books, watched the videos, made the sticker chart. They still refuse to sit on the toilet.

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Lying

Your child looks you in the eye and tells you something that isn’t true, and you’re caught between anger, worry, and not knowing how to react.

You saw them take the cookie. You asked. They said no with a straight face and crumbs on their shirt. It’s small, but something about being lied to by your own child stings in a way you didn’t expect.
The lies are getting more creative. They blamed their sibling for the marker on the wall, invented a story about the teacher saying it was OK, made up a friend who "told them to." You’re not sure anymore when they’re telling the truth.
You punished them for lying and now they’ve just gotten better at it. You feel like the strategy backfired. You don’t want to overreact to normal kid stuff, but you don’t want to let it slide either. You’re stuck.

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Attention seeking

Your child needs you every single second. Interrupting, following, clinging. You’ve lost any sense of personal space or time.

You sat down to answer one email. Within thirty seconds: "Mom, look. Mom. Mom! MOMMY!" You haven’t finished a thought in weeks. You love them, but right now you’d give anything for five uninterrupted minutes.
You’re on the phone and they suddenly need something urgent — a snack, a bandaid, help with a toy that was fine two minutes ago. If you don’t respond immediately, they do something they know is wrong just to make you react.
You went to the bathroom and locked the door. They’re lying on the floor outside, fingers under the door, asking when you’re coming out. It would be funny if you weren’t so depleted. You feel guilty for needing space from your own child.

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Low confidence

Your child says "I can’t" before even trying, gives up at the first obstacle, and no amount of encouragement seems to get through.

They said "I’m stupid" last Tuesday. They’re five. You don’t know where they heard it or whether they heard it from themselves. You told them they’re not, but the sentence is stuck in your head and you keep replaying it.
They quit soccer after two sessions because they weren’t "as good as the other kids." You wanted to push them to stay but were afraid of making it worse. Now they don’t want to try anything new.
Homework time: they see the worksheet and immediately say "I can’t do this." You sit with them, encourage them, show them they can. And it works while you’re there. The moment you step away, they stop. You wonder if your help is actually making them more dependent.

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Sensory sensitivity

Tags, textures, sounds, or certain foods trigger intense reactions in your child that seem disproportionate but are clearly real to them.

You changed their shirt four times this morning because the seams "hurt." You’re already late, they’re crying, and you’re holding three rejected outfits wondering if this is normal or if you should be worried.
They won’t eat anything with a "weird texture," which includes most fruits, all vegetables, and anything mixed together. Family meals have become an exercise in separate plates and held-back frustration.
Birthday parties are a minefield. The noise, the crowd, the singing. They cover their ears and want to leave while every other kid is having fun. You can see them suffering and you don’t know how to help without making them feel different.

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Social difficulties

Your child struggles to make friends, share, or fit into group situations, and you can see them on the outside looking in.

At the park, they stand at the edge of the group watching the other kids play. You’ve tried nudging, suggesting, even joining in with them. They freeze. You drive home quiet, carrying their loneliness on top of your own.
Playdates are stressful. They grab toys, refuse to take turns, melt down when things don’t go their way. The other parent is polite, but the invitations are getting fewer. You’re running out of strategies and friends.
They came home from school and said "nobody played with me today." You held it together, asked questions, suggested ideas. Then you went to the other room and cried. You know you can’t fix this for them, but watching it is unbearable.

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HOW IT WORKS

Every book is written from zero. Just for your child.

Each book is written for one child and one moment — unique text, unique illustrations, your child's name on every page.

Pick a challenge

Choose what your child is going through right now: tantrums, bedtime battles, separation anxiety, and more.

Make it theirs

Add your child's name and choose their character. The story is written and illustrated around them, not adapted from a template.

Read it together

A 32-page picture book arrives at your door. Inside: their story, plus a guide for you, because you're finding your way through this too.

Create Your Unique Book

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Bedtime stories that help your child find their own way.

It's written when you order it.Every word.Every illustration.Every page.

A whole world waiting for them.

Whatever emotion they're facing, there's a story for that.

Bedtime resistance

Tantrums

Morning chaos

Defiance

Picky eating

Screen dependency

Sibling rivalry

Separation anxiety

Hitting & biting

Fear of the dark

Potty accidents

Lying

Attention seeking

Low confidence

Sensory sensitivity

Social difficulties

Every book is written from zero. Just for your child.

Ordering with confidence.

It's written when you order it.
Every word.
Every illustration.
Every page.