5 Great Tips to Tell Bedtime Stories to Your Children
Bedtime stories have been and are being told since ages to children in all strata of the society by their elders and they have been proven to help in their cognitive development. Stories take the imagination level and creativity of children to great heights and if they are told at bedtime, they can create a peaceful environment which helps in a healthy development of brain, which consequently help them in their educational development. However, even if a parent understands the importance of bedtime stories, every parent is not a good story-teller; neither can they remember a good story every time. So, is there any solution? Yes, there are some tips which can help you in becoming a good story-teller for your child.
1. Treasure of Stories
If you find it difficult to find a good story for your child, don’t worry. IStoryBooks.co is a fantastic place to get free bedtime stories and ebooks, across the internet, on websites and software applications which you can download on your tablets, smartphones and iPads, and a treasure of bedtime stories will be opened for you and your child.
2. Create a Peaceful Environment
Ideally, bedtime stories should be narrated in a peaceful environment. When your child would grow up, s/he would remember the dim light, serene atmosphere, the warmth of bed and your vicinity, and an enchanting story being told in a low voice, and how s/he used to enter the magical world of dreams! Remember, this serenity and security makes the quality time you can spend with your child, and it helps her/him greatly to succeed in every field of life. So, switch off the TV and make the light dim (but not totally off). Try to read the story in different voices and you can even make some actions to keep the child engrossed. So, you can speak in different voices for the prince, the demon, the tiger and the rabbit. You can insert some comic actions too like tiger licking his lips while staring at his favorite food or how the demon fell down. This will relieve the stress the child is getting during the stressful situations in the story. In short, use as many ways as you can to make the story-time more fun.
3. Read the Same Story for Some Time
If your child is learning to speak, it’s good to read the same story for some time; this will help her/him in language development. It will also improve her/his memory. This is because, when s/he listens to the story for the first time, s/he won’t catch every detail, which s/he will catch when the story will be repeated to her/him again and again. Also, s/he will be more familiar with the words and also understand speech patterns in a better way.
4. Let it Be Just a Story
Though you now know that your story will improve your child’s brain abilities, language skills and speech patterns, don’t make it an academic lesson! Let it remain just a story. It’s quite tempting to test how much the child has learnt and you may ask her/him questions; this will bore the child soon and s/he will lose interest in the story-time.
5. Help Children Find Storybooks
Stories are great for proper development of children. If you take interest in your child’s choice of books in book shops or libraries, it’ll help her/him in choosing just the right books. Even if s/he chooses a book that is too complex for her/him, don’t discourage her/him from looking into it, because the pictures in the book might have attracted the child. Research has proved that children who get their favorite books do better in studies.
