Do your kids listen to your fairytales in the evening, or they choose watching cartoons? Or playing a smartphone?
Reading fairytales before falling asleep is one of the best family traditions that play a great role for kids development.
Many people don't realize how important this short kind stories are, and how much they can influence our kids.
So what are the main reasons to read a fairytale, but not to watch a popular modern cartoon before going to bed?
❤️ Only 15 minutes of reading aloud to children make them more obedient, more open and attentive to the world.
If we don't just read, but discuss these stories, we create a great contact with our kids, it's a process of better understanding and creating right views and values.
❤️ Fairytales are a universal children's language
Following the fate of fairy-tale characters, the child begins to understand everyday things.
On the one hand, the world in fairy tales is simple: there is a clear boundary between good (hard-working Cinderella) and evil (cruel stepmother), on the other hand, it raises important problems for the children's universe (greed and generosity, good and evil, loneliness and friendship, selfishness and cooperation). ).
❤️ Fairytales educate
In fairytale character children see themselves. It's a process of identification. If you want to teach your son good manners, find a book about someone like him, for example, about a boy who is the same age, who does not like to brush his teeth.
❤️ Bedtime stories comfort and set kids in a positive mood
The story must have a happy end. This is a kind of instrument of positive suggestion - the world is sometimes unfair, there is despair in it, something may not work out, but good always triumphs over evil.
❤️Parents can create their own stories about their kids! And it works so fine!
I often tell my son stories about a boy whose name is Vlad, like my son's name and create different adventures for him to show how smart, brave and clever he is.
He like them very much;)
❤️ Fairy tales help you understand yourself
Have you noticed that children can listen to the same fairytale for hours? Often this is a signal that something worries them, interests or pleases them.
If your child demands that you read The Ugly Duckling to him all the time, he may feel lonely and helpless.
Such a problem-oriented fairytale allows a child to concentrate on the problem, solve it, gives the feeling that he is not alone.
Moreover, I had a great idea - a book about my son! All fairytales about him! And I've found the site where people create such books. Your kid's photos, fairytales that are full of details of his real life, friends and family and kind, teaching stories where he can learn what is right and wrong, and how to be happy in this world.
https://makediscovery.ru/
It's an amazing idea, and I will order such a book for my son for sure;)😍