Children and bedtime stories

The bedtime stories are a ritual which is followed generation to generation to prepare a child to sleep. The trends of bedtime story encapsulated in a book has been started from past years, but before that parent or the guardian of the child used to narrate the stories of brave kings, freedom fighters, or any religious story, so that the child get inspired from those stories. But this tradition has been lost in this modern lifestyle.

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Bedtime stories can help imbibe the good manners and habits; it plays an important role in the child’s life, which has been proved by the researchers. The researchers have discovered that stories narrated at bedtime would nourish the child to enhance his vision, ideas and reading ability. It is very important how the bedtime stories are read or narrated to a child. The well written, narrated and illustrated children book can enhance the child’s interest in the story and the books and it will inculcate a habit of reading information from any time of books. The bedtime stories include many different characters such as animals, birds, etc. and if the reader expresses and conveys these characters by hand signs and facial and symbolic actions, it may help the child identify these different characters/animals very easily. It also develops their vocabulary as well as the pronunciation skills by observing the storytellers. These have also been able to help parents or guardians to develop a strong bond with their children.

Despite of these benefits on child’s development, a survey states that only one of three parents

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read bedtime stories with their children. Today’s children spend more time watching TV and playing video games. A new trend of e-books have started replacing the book with the Tablets and iPhone’s, but these gadgets do not allow the satisfaction and belonging for the story or their favorite characters as the book can provide. It has been also stated that the children who doesn't have their bedtime story in their childhood are lacking in their reading skills, while the children whose parents have nourish them by narrating stories every night to their children have accomplished much better reading skills and if the child continues to explore the books growing into teen, it can built up a whole new world for child that he/she would like to get lost in.

There is a wide range of bedtime story books available in market as well as online. The selection of story must be appropriate so that the children could enjoy and also get some education through the story.