Story books and other books for my children
Stories have become a mean to calm the children down before they sleep, a tool to boost their creativity, a motivation drive to get them into the habit of reading as well as my teaching aid to get them to behave.
Every night, before they close their eyes, there is always a story session. Each of my children gets to choose one story and there are always some values in it that they learn.
Help me be good stories
I tell them a variety of stories from fairy tales to real life stories, not forgetting some stories of my own creation.
Let’s take an example of my little daughter who refuses to buckle up while in the car months ago. My maid was sitting with her and persuading her, telling her to tie the seat belt but only to get a “NO” in return. So, what did I do? I told her a story of my own creation.
The story goes like this:
Once upon a time, there was a little girl name Mary. Mary doesn’t like to buckle up when she’s in the car. Her daddy and mummy keep telling her that it is important to buckle up but she just won’t listen. So, one day, daddy and mummy brought Mary out. They were going to Jusco by car and daddy was driving very fast. Suddenly, daddy had to brake his car because a car came out suddenly from one corner. Mary flew out of the window because she did not tie her seat belt and mummy gave out a loud cry. Daddy stopped his car and mummy ran out crying “Mary, Mary”. She was in tears. Mary was badly injured and was sent to the hospital. In the end, Mary regretted and promised daddy and mummy that she would buckle up every time she sits in the car.
After hearing it, my little girl quickly reached for her seat belt.
Stories from Scholastic and some others
There are many more stories which I create for my children to make them behave. They seem to learn better from stories instead of me saying: “Don’t do this and don’t do that.”
Stories from Walt Disney
The only problem is that when they say: “Mummy, can we have the story about Jane?” I would go: “Err…Which Jane?” Forgetful mummy has mixed all the names up and does not know who is in which story. Sign of getting old, isn’t it?
24 comments:
Jo-N, you have all sort of good books for your children, you are a great mummy!
good to know that your kids love to learn from the story telling session, keep up the good work :)
good job Jo-N! it also encounrages kids to love books!
my kid also like story telling, but I exhausted read again n again. i guess you also the same too... :)
I'm getting a bit slack in story telling. Cannot, cannot edi... must continue this bedtime routine.
Some lucky kids you have there. It's a great way to bond! They will remember it for years to come. :)
I still remember the stories my parents told me as a kid, those times we shared is the most cherished treasure in my heart.
Aidan loves reading stories. I will read him the story then he reads it to me.
Wow!What a collection of stories books you have for your children. You are a great mummy, Jo-N. My girl has stop the bedtime stories session for 1 month plus but she has started it again since last week. Need to look for more books already!
So nice u hv all kinds of book for children , it's really good to let our kids love book, i m on this track now to train Jeremy read and "fall in love" with booksssss . Thanks for sharing .
hi kawan...
borrow some books 4 my kids .. can or not
wow...lot of books :D nice. Jason also love to be around books especially when we go to library.
You are really neat JoN... keeping that books so neat as well... can your children put back the books after reading them? hm..hm..how long do you need to tuck the children on bed time? I need more than 30 minutes of before sleeping rituals with Clay...
aaah... this is a story about the child flying through out the window you've told me before in my children's diary!! :-) Thanks for sharing, JoN!!
ahhh... I remember you said your mum encourages you to read and now you are passing the wonderful gift to your kids... :-)
so many book there... too bad my gal like to conteng the book only
Hi Jo-n. reading how you tell stories get your kids do things really cute.
Our time no human rights...it was a thigh raising pinch or a smack if we don't do as requested, ha ha.
My mom I remember had one of those deadly Clint Eastwood kind of, 'go ahead my my day' kind of stare,...good enough to make us behave, ha ha.
And she was faster than Clint Eastwood on the draw....only her's was a 3 feet long rattan cane, "ouch"!
Ha ha, Lee.
u have alot of good books there..i'm very teruk, dunno what books to get :(
when my girl tells me she want to listen to a song, or a certain scene from from a certain part of her song CD or DVD, it makes me go crazy too....how to remember which CD wor...
My son now always want me to read a bedtime story. Sometimes, I wonder why I started the practice, especially all I want to do is to go and sleep myself rather than reading all those kiddy stories. Aiya, the sacrifices of being a mom!!
Your kids' books are so neatly arranged. My kids' books are scattered everywhere in the house *malu*
it's always easy to say for me...i know it's good to enforce reading into kids but really actually doing it is always not easy!! some more i dislike reading myself... sigh!!
yr kids r so lucky to hv a story teller mummy!!
That's a really good idea to teach the children character. I do it thru internet radio... hee hee.. lazy Mommy.
Wuah. Your bookshelve so neat. Hahaha.
haha... that's very creative of you to advice and instruct your children to obey. And you children are so blessed to have so many story books!
my girls won't settle for one book.. scary one. they will bring a stack and ask me to read...
yeyeye.. you are a great mummy. I have lots of books too.. Think i got to buck up and read to her everyday.
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