Children and bedtime stories

The bedtime stories are a ritual which is followed generation to generation to prepare a child to sleep. In the olden days, the parent or the guardian of the child used to create their own stories which would inspire the child to prepare for the life's events stories were a powerful medium which helped the child to build up a character that helped him/her to survive in the real world.

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 nourish the child to enhance his vision, ideas and reading ability. It is very important how the stories are read or narrated to a child. The well written, narrated and illustrated story 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 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 stories have also been able to help parents or guardians to develop a strong bond with their children.

Despite of these benefits of bedtime stories on child's development, a survey states that only one of three parents 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 iPhones, but these gadgets do not allow the satisfaction and belongingness for the story or their favorite characters as the book can provide. It has been also stated that the children who doesn't have bedtime stories lack in their reading skills, while the children who have their bedtime stories every night have 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 stories 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.