Parents who don’t read with their children and tell them stories every day are not good parents – parent-child reading is as important as eating and breathing, but there are still parents who are innocent: my children don’t like to listen to stories, can you blame me?
Who can I blame if not you? Can I blame you? Can I blame Mr. Zhang and Mrs. Wang next door?
Children do not like to listen to your stories, it is your storytelling skills are too bad.
The human hunger for stories is innate and eternal. All the gossip we hear every day, the TV and movies we watch, the internet segments we like …… all of it, is a story. Storytelling is a test of a parent’s overall ability to sing, read, do and play gags and pretend to be crazy and sell silly all the skills to play pure, and then use a little trick to seduce the child to read books and listen to stories about this thing.
- How old is a child before you can tell him a story? From the Time he is an embryo. When the child is still in the womb, you can tell him something new and exciting, as much or as little as you like. After the baby is born, spend some time every day to communicate with him, gently tell him what mommy and daddy did today, what is happening in the world, or tell him a little fairy tale – don’t think that the little baby is chaotic and ignorant at this time, he is a higher animal, not a straw worm. When your child is 5 months old, you can tell stories with the help of various children’s books. Until your child starts elementary school, the amount of time spent on parent-child reading can be increased in increments, from about 15 minutes a day before the age of 2, to about half an hour a day after the age of 2, which can become an hour or even more after the age of 4.
- How to choose story books? Cloth books, plastic books, doll books, three-dimensional books, children’s picture books …… There is always one that can seduce your kids. In fact, every time I see those strange children’s books on the market, I would love to live again, there are very dirty and dirty science books, there are toy books that can be pulled and dug, there are cloth books that can be soaked in water, there are three-dimensional books that look like cars ……2 babies under the age of 2 can buy more cloth books doll books, and babies over 2 years old will be Children’s picture books and three-dimensional books are the main. Recently I bought more than 30 three-dimensional books to Vai Tang, each time I grabbed with him to read, each book is a lively biology, physics, chemistry class, if I was a child parents accompanied me to read such picture books, now I can get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Physics!
- parents must first love the story you want to tell, do not take this as a political task. Some parents take parent-child reading as a boring task, a face, order the child, come here, now start listening to me tell the story …… and then happy and angry to read the book …… children are not willing to listen to also with others to turn the other cheek, you are good. Take storytelling as a fun adventure with children, we go together to explore an unknown interdimensional world, you have to first self-high, in order to drive children. What? You’re not interested in children’s books at all? That’s fine, just accept that your child is as boring as you are.
- different parents, different stories, can have different styles. You can choose the style according to your own characteristics, your child’s characteristics, and the characteristics of the story you want to tell. But in general, most children tend to prefer a more performative, emotionally charged, intonational, and fanciful style of storytelling.
- Suspenseful storytelling: Targeting children’s interests, picking out the selling points and suspense to entice them. Sometimes children like to listen to the same story over and over again and are not willing to try new stories, so parents need to find out the point of the story you want to tell that will interest the child, for example, your child likes animals, so say, do you know why animals can not wear clothes? What will happen if the hedgehog wears a sweater? Curiosity is a natural part of a child’s Life, and he or she will be very interested in hearing you talk about “Animals should never wear clothes”.
Acting out the story: Play role-playing games with your child based on the story. How can you tell the same story ten or more times and still come up with something new? This involves a lot of skills, and role-playing is one of the more common ones. You can play several roles and use different accents when reading the lines of different characters. You can also assign roles and act out the story so that you and your child are the actors and your Home is the scene of the play. You can use all the props around you at any time, and you can also involve the rest of the Family. The child plays Little Red Riding Hood, you play the big bad wolf, eat him with teeth and claws, and then wait for his panic and scream in bad taste!
- Questioning: During the storytelling process, parents should turn into curious babies and ask 100,000 questions. I have found that most parents have lost the ability to ask questions and they are no longer intellectually curious about the world. Trust me, you are more ignorant than you think. I just learned a lot of knowledge that I never had in the process of telling stories to my children. Even if you know everything, pretend to be ignorant, like asking your child, what would you do if you were Little Red Riding Hood? Why did the little wolf die? Is the Big Bad Wolf or Little Red Riding Hood tastier? This makes the child participate in the story process at any time, not a passive listener, and can mobilize interest and strengthen memory.
- Derivative discussion method: Start from a certain point in the story and have an impromptu thematic workshop with your child. For example, if you tell the story of the mermaid, you can take the initiative and ask your child, “Is a mermaid a fish? Is there really a mermaid? Is a dollfish a fish? Is a whale a fish? Then go online with your child, or look up information books, to find the answers. About fish, it can be discussed for an hour. The direction of the discussion can be random, or designed, whatever. 9.
- experimental method of storytelling, to try out some scenarios in the story to see if they work. Recently Weitang especially like the “Olivia” series of children’s books, about Olivia called herself a doctor, had to give a friend to treat itchy feet, the treatment is to let friends put their feet into a cup of yogurt …… this paragraph Weitang listened to laugh over, laughing off, laughing until vomiting, his grandmother in the side completely collapsed, just changed on the clean sheets ah. And I heartlessly proposed that we bring the cup of expired yogurt in the refrigerator, try to see what it feels like to put your foot in it? Then I and only Tang two scientists happily do experiments, behind is a long sigh of grandmother.
- made-up storytelling: parents can be the original storytellers, giving their children brand new stories tailored to their needs. Frankly speaking, my ability in this area is really average, at best, I just use the toys at home, furniture, and make up some small stories to tell children, such as the 10 troubles of the sofa, teddy bear sailing around the world and so on, not very original. I know some mothers are creative players, their children made up some story characters, the development of a series of stories, or a long serial type, too good.
Finally, I would like to say that to tell a story to a child, you have to learn and develop at least 5 skills on your own, parents, this business is not easy to mix.
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