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At 2 a.m., Sam had a nightmare about the moon falling. Mara, in the hush of the house, brought him to the window and pointed out the steady silver disk, safe and patient in the sky. They counted constellations she didn’t know the names of; she made some up. He laughed, a thin sound that unknotted the terror. She wrote both incidents in the binder’s notes section under “Temperament Observations,” a habit parents later called thoughtful and oddly comforting.

: The tension peaks when the babysitter accidentally gets locked out of the house while the children are still inside. Resolution

While " The Efficient Babysitter " is often searched for in relation to short story (sometimes titled simply " The Baby-Sitter

The Efficient Babysitter Author: Often attributed to William O. Steele (check your source, as the title may vary) — but if you mean the famous short story about a methodical babysitter who follows strict rules, it may be from a school literature anthology or a modern fiction collection.