Fabulous reads – Tackle your child’s night time fears

The Darkest Dark, Chris Hadfield and the Fan Brothers, Pan Macmillan

CONFESSION time. I hate the dark. When the lights go out your mind can play the most awful tricks on you.

Things appear to move, sounds seem to be heightened and absolutely anything, anything, could appear in the space where it once was not.

Cris Hadfield, now a world-famous astronaut, was also afraid of what the dark would bring when the light in his room was flicked off.

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During the day he could let his vivid imagination run rampant as he fought off aliens and traversed through space.

But his bravado would all but disappear when it was dark.

Monsters would rise from under the bed and not even his night light could save him.

When he watched real life astronauts walking and jumping on the moon, it gave him a new perspective to night time and darkness. He describes outer space as being ‘the darkest dark ever.’

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Sure, it was still a bit scary, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as he thought it was.

If you have a child who is petrified of the dark, this book may just help them overcome their night time monsters or possibly give you a few ideas on how to help them tackle the boogeyman under their bed.

Either way, this book was a little too late for me.

I will definitely still hop, skip and jump my way to the bed when I flick the light switch off.

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