Telling Stories to Children

Parents promise themselves to give the best to their children.
The bar is high for parents to teach the kids values on tradition, discipline, language skills so as the kids grow up to be able citizens. The effort surely is rewarding when children imbibe the right things.
Exploration is natural by committing mistakes. Parents should recognize and correct the wrong behaviour. All children demand stories, be it eating time, a boring travel journey and surely it is a bed ritual.

If you have paucity of time juggling with chores, then invest in some interesting fairy tale bed time story books.

Children's literature abounds with millions of elves, fairy, goblin, monster and sea devil stories.
Interesting colour pictures, expressions and touch-feel books are available in the market. Rewarding the child through books is a valuable idea.
If you are reading a story, be enthusiastic.
Use one hand free to articulate exclamations, pauses, commas and happiness.
Use up and down animated versions and help the child participate. Children do not respond to routine and mundane reading.

They are bored easily by repetitive ordeals and let story sessions be bonding times.

Both parents have to involve themselves either simultaneously or choose alternate days to suit schedules.
The mind of the parent should be free and pending works should not interfere the narration.

It is necessary, that one does the homework fool proof to answer surprising questions and explanations. Introduce new words each time.
Teach them words like good, nice, wonderful, best all mean positive happenings. Let them understand that bad, ugly, wrong is negative.
Teach them opposites like day-night, up-down, sweet-bitter expressing them with your hands and face.
In case you are tired and it is natural that fatigue refrains you from being natural, then read a short story with nice colour patterns.

Laze on a hammock with your child on a holiday and narrate true stories about your childhood.

All of us live vicariously through our children during their growing years.
So the best patterns are narrating a few lines about honesty, hard work and value about money.
If the child has a habit of seeing pictures from a very keen age, the child gets easily adapted to a pattern of self study.
Their orientation is structured and they will focus on reading independently. Telling stories is an art and all parents naturally master it.
Bed times are special and make sure not to introduce scary surprises and kids might visualize them in their dreams causing nightmares.

Actually the goblins, witches, wizards are to be introduced necessarily to deem it as non emulative values.
Hence like all other theories on raising kids, tell them stories rich in tradition, worldly pursuits and also about the 'Almighty'.

Teach them the sacrifice of Christ and read them lucidly about Hindu mythology.