From today you will not sleep sad, my son

Author's name: Dr. Abdullah Muhammad Abd al-Mut'i

For a whole year, I asked young men and women (hundreds of them): How many days a week do you go to bed sad? The surprise was that a high percentage of them said: I go to bed sad 3 to 4 days a week, meaning they sleep sad for half of their days or more. A very small percentage of these said: I go to bed sad one day a week. I asked many children and teenagers: When do you go to bed sad? What things do you go through during the day that might make you go to bed sad? They said different things, and I combined them all and came up with about a hundred reasons. Yes, a hundred reasons that might make your son or daughter go to bed sad. It is a time of worries and sadness for adults, so how about our poor, young children? Sadness attacks our children morning and evening, and they are in dire need of a mother's caring hand and a father's pure smile. In order for you to succeed in this mission, and so that none of our children go to bed sad, I have provided you in this book with hundreds of practical, realistic, creative - and easy-to-understand - ideas to combat children's sadness, during the day, in the evening, and at bedtime. Our goal is for the home to be an oasis of happiness, where everyone feels reassured and forgets their sorrows within its walls.