Once upon a time...

Story telling is an art especially when you have a heavy pair of eyes working against gravity in the dark. Children love to listen to bedtime stories. Listening to the same story over and over again never really bores them. On the contrary they memorise it each time and ensure that you don’t take any short cuts to finish the story earlier than schedule.

I have rehashed familiar stories and swapped characters when run out of new stories. At times I invent my own stories where the characters love to eat vegetables and hate KFC and colas. She agrees to the moral of the story but is short lived … giving me enough opportunity to repeat it again and again.

I think repeated listening of the favourite fairly tales in a way gives children the confidence to form their own visuals within and to relate to their surroundings. For a child each new day is an experience that augments the surreal world sketched by beautiful princesses, dwarfs, fairies et al.

Once upon a time there was a princess…..don’t yawn ….let your child paint a beautiful world that only belongs to her.