Bedtime stories for kids of Chief Executive Officers

Why this matters

Your calendar fills up before breakfast. Board meetings bleed into conference calls. Sometimes your kid is asleep before you get home, and you're back on a plane before they wake up. A bedtime story where *they* are the hero—and your work is the backdrop to their adventure—doesn't replace the time you're missing. But it does something real: it tells your child that what you do matters, that you think about them even when you're in that meeting, and that their questions about your job deserve real answers, not just "Mommy's at work."

When kids hear stories about themselves alongside their parent's actual world—the decisions you make, the problems you solve, the teams you lead—something shifts. Suddenly "Mom's working late" isn't abandonment. It's part of a bigger picture where they belong. Your child goes to sleep knowing they're not just waiting for you to come home. They're part of why you do what you do. That connection, night after night, builds something that no amount of guilt-filled car rides can replace.