My eight-year-old kept telling me that her bed felt “too tight,” but at first I assumed she was just uncomfortable or imagining things. Night after night she mentioned it again, sounding more worried each time. Then one night at 2:00 a.m., I checked the room camera—and what it revealed finally explained exactly why she had been saying it.

For nearly three weeks, Mia repeated the same strange sentence every night before falling asleep. “Mom… my bed feels too tight.” At first, her mother assumed it was simply the kind of unusual phrase children sometimes use when they cannot clearly explain what they are feeling. Mia was eight years old, imaginative, and occasionally reluctant to go to continue reading …