Tell stories to children
Parents promise themselves to give their children the best. The bar is high for parents to teach children values about tradition, discipline, language skills so that children grow up to be capable citizens. The effort surely pays off when kids drink the right things. Exploration is natural when making mistakes. Parents must recognize and correct incorrect behavior.
All children demand stories, whether it is time to eat, a boring trip and surely it is a bed ritual. If you have little time to juggle household chores, then invest in some interesting fairy tale books for bedtime. Children’s literature abounds with millions of tales of elves, fairies, goblins, monsters, and sea devils. Interesting color pictures, expressions and tactile books are available in the market. Rewarding the child through books is a valuable idea.
If you’re reading a story, be enthusiastic. Use one free hand to utter exclamations, pauses, commas, and happiness. Use animated up and down versions and help the child participate. Children do not respond to mundane, routine reading. They easily get bored with repetitive tests and let story sessions be bonding moments.
Both parents must participate simultaneously or choose alternate days to accommodate schedules. Parents’ minds should be free and pending work should not interfere with the storytelling. It is necessary for one to do the foolproof task to answer surprising questions and explanations.
Enter new words each time. Teach them words like good, nice, wonderful, better, they all mean positive events. That they understand that the bad, the ugly, the bad is negative. Teach them opposites like day-night, up-down, sweet-sour by expressing them with their hands and face.
In case you are tired and it is natural that fatigue prevents you from being natural, then read a short story with cute color patterns. Relax in a hammock with your child on vacation and tell true stories about your childhood. All of us live vicariously through our children during their growing years. So the best patterns are to narrate a few lines about honesty, hard work, and value for money.
If the child is in the habit of seeing images from a very acute age, he will easily adapt to a self-learning pattern. Their orientation is structured and they will focus on reading independently. Storytelling is an art and one that all parents master naturally. Bedtime is special and make sure you don’t present scary surprises and children may visualize them in their dreams causing nightmares.
Actually, goblins, witches and wizards must necessarily be presented to be considered as non-emulating values. So, like all other child-rearing theories, tell them stories rich in lore, worldly pursuits, and also about the ‘Almighty’. Teach them the sacrifice of Christ and read them lucidly about Hindu mythology.
