Write the one thing tomorrow-morning-you needs to hear.
Write a message to yourself tomorrow.
Everyone gets the same subject. What differs is the follow-up: one question for children, two for teens, three for adults. Only the children's wording is simplified.
Cut every “well, but”. The sentence stands up straight without them.
Cut at the conjunction. Where “and” or “so” appears, a period belongs.
Write as if no one will read it. You can choose what to show after you finish.
Write the visible, not the felt, and the reader stands there with you.
Open with a question and the reader keeps going to find the answer.
One line against your own view makes the whole piece stronger.