Shashank Muley is a father, storyteller, and the creator of a growing series of books, activities, and games built around a simple but powerful idea: children need to understand what they feel before they can learn how to navigate those feelings. His work focuses on helping children, from age five through the teenage years and into young adulthood, recognize, name, understand, and talk about the many emotions they experience. He believes that giving a child the vocabulary for their inner world is the first step towards emotional awareness.

Dad’s Stories for Pre-teens is part of this larger journey. Through relatable stories, conversations, activities, and games, Shashank hopes to make emotional awareness natural, engaging, and age-appropriate. His aim is not to tell children what they should feel, but to make them curious about what they are feeling, why they feel it, and what they can do with it—while giving parents a meaningful window into their child’s emotional world.