Max & Lumi: Calming Bedtime Stories for Kids & Parents
🌙 Max & Lumi — The Storylight JarA bedtime podcast for parents who want calmer nights, happier mornings, and children who drift easily into sleep.Created for families with children aged 4–7, Max & Lumi blends soothing storytelling, gentle mindfulness, and sleep science into a 7–12 minute nightly ritual that helps young minds slow down and feel safe before bed.Pediatric sleep studies show that predictable, calming bedtime routines can help children fall asleep up to 30% faster and reduce night wakings by nearly half.¹ Max & Lumi is built entirely around that science — offering a consistent, screen-free way to end each day with connection, learning, and calm.Every Magic...
The Sun Who Smiled First – The Living Glow
Welcome to Max & Lumi — The Storylight Jar, the calming bedtime podcast that helps parents and children build peaceful, consistent sleep routines.
In this final chapter of the Serenity cycle, The Living Glow, Lumi releases the last golden light from the Storylight Jar. It rises slowly, ready to return to the Dreamtree. Tonight, Max and Lumi travel through Nocternia one last time — not to listen, but to live what they’ve learned.
🌞 What This Episode Is About
Guided by Lumi’s wings, Max follows a trail of warm sunlight through the Dreamgate and finds the...
The Sun Who Smiled First – The Learning Glow
Welcome back to Max & Lumi — The Storylight Jar, the calming bedtime podcast for families who want gentler evenings, happier mornings, and children who drift easily into sleep.
In The Learning Glow, the storylight rises again, carrying Max and Lumi across the Dreamgate into the heart of Nocternia. This is the second chapter of the Dreamtree’s first word, Serenity, and the moment when the listeners truly enter the tale first told by Gramps in The Sun Who Smiled First.
🌞 What This Episode Is About
Guided by Lumi’s shimmering wings, Max finds hims...
The Sun Who Smiled First – The Listening Glow
Welcome back to Max & Lumi — The Storylight Jar, the calming bedtime podcast that helps parents and children unwind together and build peaceful sleep routines.
In this first story of the season, The Sun Who Smiled First, Lumi introduces the week’s Magic Word: Serenity — a beautiful word meaning calm that feels warm, safe, and steady inside. It begins the Dreamtree’s first journey through the Three Glows, starting with The Listening Glow.
🌞 What This Episode Is About
Inspired by Aesop’s fable “The Wind and the Sun,” this gentle reimagining follows a bright young su...
Introduction – The Night the Storylight Awoke
Welcome to Max & Lumi — The Storylight Jar, the calming bedtime podcast for parents who want gentler evenings, happier mornings, and children who drift easily into sleep.
This first episode, The Night the Storylight Awoke, is where it all begins — when Max meets Lumi, the Storylight Fairy, and the first glow shines from Gramps’ silver beard.
🌙 What This Episode Is About
In this ten-minute introduction, families are invited into the safe, glowing world of Nocternia. It’s the night Max first sees the Storylight Jar shimmer awake — the moment that turns bedtime into somethin...
