Stories to sleep the children

How difficult it is for me to wake up the children in the morning to go to school! Although most of the days they usually wake up alone as if they had a clock inside that warned them that it is time to wake up, when we have low pressures in the weather and there are many clouds in the sky, they woul

How difficult it is for me to wake up the children in the morning to go to school! Although most of the days they usually wake up alone as if they had a clock inside that warned them that it is time to wake up, when we have low pressures in the weather and there are many clouds in the sky, they would be sleeping two more hours and , sometimes, I think that the story of yesterday, perhaps lasted more than necessary.

And there are days that at night there is no one to put them to bed. It seems that they are activated at night and can not find time to go to bed. To combat this feeling of anxiety in children, which produces the mixture of tiredness and nervousness, which does not let them fall asleep easily, there is nothing like the bedtime stories.

Fables and stories to tell the children

It is easy to convince children to get into bed, if you tell them that you are going to tell them or read a story. When lying in a horizontal position, with the head on the pillow, the feeling of relaxation begins to take effect in your body and well-being rises with the dim light of the lamp and the warm voice of your father or your mother telling a story new or one of his favorite stories, that do not get tired of listening, although you have told a thousand times.

After many nights telling stories, I discovered that short stories or short versions of stories to go to sleep are the ones that work best. Fractioning the story in several days does not work with my children because, in the end, they are left with the desire to know what happens next, if it is new, and they want me to read a little more, and then a little more and so on until I almost finished the story.

In the fables I have also found another reef. I find especially interesting the compilations of fables and stories that have been transmitted oral tradition for centuries through different generations and that today, thanks to its printed version, we can remember and enjoy. In addition, this allows children to become more and more citizens of the world, by sharing customs and traditions from other places, from other cultures, which although distant in space, become close in time, to be understood and revived by children .

Marisol New. Editor of Guiainfantil.com