There's a Nightmare in My Closet

I’m not even going to lie—I’m an adult with a child of my own and am still a little afraid of the dark. I contribute my fear to my overwhelmingly large imagination because the minute the lights go out, I’m immediately thinking of all the horrible things that could be lurking behind a chair in […]

“I can’t sleep! I’m scared of monsters!” is an all-purpose toddler excuse for delaying bedtime. But if you get the sense that your kid is truly worried about scary nighttime visitors, why not replace the nebulous images they have in their imaginations of terrifying creatures with images of cute, cuddly, more-scared-of-you-than-you-are-of-them monsters? Here are a […]