Do you make up stories for your kids?

WOW! what a nice and repetitive story! I have no kids but I will keep this one on my mind and try it to them when I have them. that is if I will have kids ha ha No really that was a very creative story you got there. even your illustration was cool, you should try to make children's book.

may I ask if is it hard to have a colic baby? and could you please explain more about this. I really don't get what colic means. thanks.

I love making up stories with my daughter. Before bed, I usually read her a book, but if she is sick or restless later on in the night, I will come in and tell her a story. When she is awake during the day, we will sometimes play a game where we both make up stories together. I will usually makeup a few lines about a story and then she will do the same. We go back and forth for a while. It is pretty fun. My daughter is four.

Children love hearing stories especially simple ones. I have learned the art of storytelling through studies and researches all because I need to really be one in order to be an effective Sunday School Teacher and I'm very glad that I can use this skill to my twin grandchildren as well. Children love hearing stories with visual aids so I always carry with me some photos related to my stories. And I also have to learn to change voices to match the characters of the story like talking like a child, like a grandma...like a witch...and make sounds of animals. Ha!ha!ha! Sometimes, my students will shrink in fear as I started telling scary story, or they will burst into strong laughter with funny incidents in my story. And oh yes, with my twins who are always hyperactive and would not not want to sleep although it's already late at night. My best solution is to tell story...Oh I never run out of invented stories just to keep their attention on me...and little by little...they'd fall asleep without even me finishing my story. Ha!ha!ha! Sometimes, their own Mom would ask me "How come you could put them to sleep so easily". Well, my answer "Simple...they listen to my story"

Hi pehpot... As I look back, I can surmise that when you start reading or telling stories to your children when they are young, they grow up with a sense of reassurance in your voice and trust in your opinions. I have found from experience that when I relate a story to my son, who is now in his teen years, as a conjecture to our conversations he would contemplate on what I've shared with him with a little more involvement and not apathy. I don't know if anyone can relate, but conversing with a teenage boy can sometimes be a frustrating endeavor. They tend to dismiss a discussion with nothing much as a shrug of the shoulder or a verbal "Yeah, mom!" I have found a knack for story telling as a way of relaying a message a much more accepted understanding to him. Happy mylotting...

I don't have any child as yet. Oh yes! I am still single! So when I will have kids after marriage then I will try to cook up stories for them!

I do like making up stories for my daughter. When she was still a baby, I would sing to her- and make up songs to put her to sleep. She got used to that. Now as she's a tiny bit older, she wants stories (I guess Mom's voice isn't that well anymore LOL). So, I come up with stories on the spot and she enjoys them.