'I need you to listen and understand why,
sometimes it is that I make you cry.

I am a little foggy right now. I am just like the
rain clouds way up in the sky

I will try to explain what it is like in my brain
Why it is all fuzzy like the fog and the rain.'

How do you explain to your child why their dad has become 'a cranky pants with hair'? Why he is angry, but not with you.

A candid and heart wrenching look at the effects of PTSD on a man and his family. An explanation that a child can understand, hope for the future and a promise to return, fully restored, to his children. Both traumatic and reassuring with beautiful illustrations that will touch your heart.