June 29, 2016 at 11:39 am

Bedtime stories were my kids favorite time when they were toddlers and in kindy.

Even at age 9, my son still wanted to hear bedtime stories that are NEW to him, not those regular Little Red Riding Hood, etc.

I do not read bedtime stories from the book, but created bed time stories with my wild imagination.

For example; Little Red Riding Hood

Change the little girl to my son’s name.

Change the wolf to a lion .

Change the grandma to his teacher

Change the basket of food to his favorite food.

He loves different version of bed time stories and he even created himself, retold the story to me instead.

Bed time stories doesn’t have to be read from the story books.

You can even tell him about your childhood days.

My son was eager to hear them every night.

What about you?

Do you tell bedtime stories to your kids?

Does your parents tell you bed time stories?

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June 29, 2016 at 11:49 am

@ peachpurple  I was very fond of reading stories when I was young and I loved telling the stories to my friends and classmates later. So obviously I used to tell a bedtime story to my son every night when he was young. He demanded for a new story every time. So once I was done with whatever stories I remembered, I used to get children books and read to him. Sometimes I would make up stories from my imagination. Now my son is all grown up but sometimes he asks me some questions related to religion or spirituality or mythology and I end up telling him the related stories.

June 29, 2016 at 1:50 pm

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ah… that is so sweet…

Oh your son still ask you about religion questions?

That is a good  way to understand further.

Turning them into stories is a fun way for your son to remember them.

Clever indeed

June 29, 2016 at 2:33 pm

Yes, I do. I have a lot of bedtime stories for my kids. If in case, I am running of those stories, I create one and they do enjoy listen to it. Well, kids by nature love to listen to stories even have been retold for several times. They never get tired of listening them. They even are asking to retell them.

There is always a moral lesson for every story I tell them. I explain it to them the application of the moral of the lesson, on how it is being applied to the way of living, to their day-to-day activities from school to home, from home to school, vice versa.

I am not only telling them stories, but I even urge them to retell the stories in their own words, in their own way of understanding and they are good for that. I am very proud of my children for they are good story tellers in their own unique way.