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Story time with kids is a special time both for the parents as well as the children because not only do they bond with each other but also because stories help the children in knowing about the world while enjoying them. Parents can teach their kids about newer things around them by associating them with stories. When stories are interesting, the children are drawn into them, they listen to them with raft attention. Thus it helps in developing their listening as well as attentive skills. Plus they would be gaining knowledge. I have so many fond memories of my childhood when maa used to tell me stories every night before going to sleep. Those stories are still etched on my memory because she would make them so interesting that I would remain spellbound. She would also take that opportunity to teach me lessons from my text books, which originally I was not interested in. That is how she taught me about animals, about kings and queens, about Gods and demons, about famous personalities, about numbers, about colours, about important places and so many other things.
Story time with kids is a special time both for the parents as well as the children because not only do they bond with each other but also because stories help the children in knowing about the world while enjoying them. Parents can teach their kids about newer things around them by associating them with stories. When stories are interesting, the children are drawn into them, they listen to them with raft attention. Thus it helps in developing their listening as well as attentive skills. Plus they would be gaining knowledge. I have so many fond memories of my childhood when maa used to tell me stories every night before going to sleep. Those stories are still etched on my memory because she would make them so interesting that I would remain spellbound. She would also take that opportunity to teach me lessons from my text books, which originally I was not interested in. That is how she taught me about animals, about kings and queens, about Gods and demons, about famous personalities, about numbers, about colours, about important places and so many other things.
But the biggest advantage of story telling is that it helps in developing a child's imaginative powers. As we all know, a child's imagination can be very vivid and if encouraged, there is no limit to where their imagination can go. As parents, it is our duty to nurture and foster imagination in our kids. Stories are one of the easiest ways of doing that.
My daughter loves listening to stories and every night me and my wife take turns to tell her a new story. However at times, my wife lets her to tell us a story. Though she is only six years old but she really comes up with some wonderfully thought stories that she would have formed using her imagination. So we always encourage her to imagine and tell us a story. Most parents remain concerned about developing the physical strength in their child but developing the mental strength is equally necessary. Doing that is not that easy as improving one's physical ability. However story telling sessions can really help in developing the mental strength and imagination of the kids. Being at a young age, her mind is blank and thus this is the best time to learn about beautiful things of the world and store in her mind. Thus story telling sessions will only sharpen her imagination and brain.
Almost all kids are fond of animal characters especially in pictorial forms in various colours. What if they were given something to play with, like paper cut-outs of pictures of animal characters and sea world creatures? That is exactly what we found in the packs of Colgate toothpaste. Colgate Toothpaste has come up with four different packs that have several pictures of seaworld animals, treasures, and pirates on the insides. When I gave the packs to my daughter, she was very happy and
at once sat down to cut the pictures along the dotted lines. Thus she had several characters - many sea creatures, pirates, mermaid, sharks, whales, dolphins, tiger fish, octopus and so many others. Being a very imaginative and creative child, it didn't take much time for her to come up with an interesting story about how a young pirate comes to the deep sea in search of a treasure that his father lost in a sea storm years ago and how a mermaid and her friends help him in finding it out.
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