Bedtime Stories

06/30/10

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What makes a good bedtime story?    

Once upon a time... you remember, don't you?  You got tucked into bed.  Your favorite book  clasped in your arms.  You listened close for the sound of a parent's footsteps coming down the hall, toward your room.  For just a brief, wonderful time before falling off to sleep, you knew you'd hear the words of a story that you cherished. A bedtime story.  It was a soothing anecdote from the day's rigors of flipping baseball cards or learning arithmetic or practicing the piano or chasing the Good Humor ice cream truck down the street with a dime and a nickel clenched in your sweaty palm.

 

Before video games, computers, ipods and all the rest, there were bedtime stories.  Simple, enchanting, endearing bedtime stories.  The kind of stories that engage a young mind and send it off to an imaginary place.  When parent and child spent quiet time together, both in wonder over the story unfolding before them.  That's what Brown Bag Bedtime Books® are all about.

Cat Sauer created a splendid cast of characters for these children's stories, from the adorable flop-eared bunny "Flip Flop" to the mind-reading Owl, "Hoot."  The adventures they share in the forest and the field are those which children will want to hear over and over. 

 

A good story doesn't need pictures to tell the tale.  It's all in the words.  Let your child work their own imaginations in creating the visuals.  Picture books are fine for the very young, but as the child grows you want them to stretch their minds.  Bedtime is a perfect time to place a little tale in their heads and let them drift off imagining the story in their dreams. 

 

Whether it's reading Brown Bag Bedtime Books, another children's book, or a favorite tale you make up, just give it a try.  The story should have a simple plot, a few characters, each with traits a child can recognize or with which he or she can identify.  A message or a lesson weaved into the plot is also a good idea.  Plan to have a Bedtime Story Night at least one night a week.

You don't need to finish the story in one reading either.  Pick it up and continue for a second night. Just read aloud to your kids!

 

Remember, despite the jungle of wiz bang electronics out there, screaming for your child's attention, a kid is still a kid.  Let them hang onto it as long as they can.  A good bedtime story, with a hug and a kiss goodnight, is just one special way you can help them to do that.

Sweet Dreams!

 

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