Do you tell your kids fairy or other genre of stories?

friend,it is a very good habit of telling stories to kids not only at bedtime but also when they are free and so are you.From the stories they can learn a lot.Not only stories about fairy tales but also stories about your country ,the land around you,the world would be quite interesting.I started telling stories to my daughter since she was 1 year.I even went one step ahead.I used to read stories to her and take her to the library where i was a regular member.Yu know what,she started to devlop an interest in reading and by the time she was 3 she read books.Today she is 7 and she makes an effort to read my novels. www.magickeys.com is a place where you have on line stories also.Read out some but it is better if you buy some.You can buy an Indian magazine called champak which is cheap,beautifully illustrated and for children.Happy storytime.

Hi, don't know if this is much help as it's only my own opinion, but I do believe children should be 'told' fairy tales. By this I mean that the tales should be told, not read from a book. I think it makes it better for the child if you can. This way you can 'edit' the tale to suit the child, I never change the main points of a story mind, just the little details and language. Young children sometimes find it hard to understand the words used in traditional tales and whilst I would never 'baby' a story (kids know if you're doing this and it upsets them) I do sometimes use more common words with the same meaning. I also change or add details if it won't affect the actual plot, I for one get fed-up with 'blond haired beauties' and some of the stories don't actually go into that much detail. When I first started teling my little brother stories he was forever asking 'what colour dragon?' or something similar so I started putting more detail in. He definatley got the point of the stories, without me sitting and telling/asking him, and preffered the ones where I'd made it more personal, giving the hero the same colour hair and eyes as him, or putting in other little details which he could recognise in his own life. (A fun one now is making the 'evil queen/stepmother' figures look like a teacher he particularly dislikes!) Anyway, I'm rambling, as I said this is only my opinion, I've not read any of the books or such that people have suggested - but I think fairy tales are important, they teach our children morals without force-feeding them and they're also an important part of our culture and heritage.

yeah! u r right! it enhances creativity but at the same time you should be careful not to exceed in this thing! coz it may effect their thinking!

there is a nice place in net where u could find the good stories and for free but it is in pdf format so u must need a acrobatreader to open it and read the site is http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?currentpage=1

i will tell fairy tales.

i don't have kids yet but i am taking care of my harry potter books for my future children. i think it would be nice seeing them reading the exact books that i loved as a child. i would also like to read them loads of fairy tales.

I joined up with Scholastic club as well as the Disney book club for my 4 year old.

no but i used to hear when i was a kid from various ppl they sure were good then i used to live ina joint family .this age mostly its nuclear family so if both parents r working children dont quite get that things

well telling stories to kids is an excellent job of the parents. of course not only the creativity , your kid also able to grasp and form an outlook about the outer world before he grow. well as regards to the web site, i am not aware since i used to tell the stories of ramayana/mahabharat or short storeies from vedas/puranas etc., since i beleive there is no other special book for stories as all the imagined stores are beased on this golden scripts only. better instead of finding out the web site and shops better try to feed the stories from inside scripts like ramayana/mahabharat/purans/and if possible bring and show them the pictures of god. thanks for nice discussion

I agree that stories really help a kids mind and brain, and using your imagination really can spark other creativity in other areas. I wish I could have more commitment to reading more...alot more...with my kids, but I dont like reading books too much, I usually fall asleep...bad habit....but I encourage my older kids to read to the little ones! I subscribe to BibleRhymes.com....check it out....free E-books on the bible for kids told in rhyme...I was referred by a friend and totally impressed by this mans ability to convert the bible stories into ryhme......... www.BibleRhymes.com..... also, I dont know what area you are in, but my local library offers free e-books on line...with your patron library card...all I have to do is log in and a million books are at my disposal! well maybe not a million, but so many I cant read them all!!!....Also a suggestion may be to pick up some stories on cd or cassette at the library, and you both could listen to them, my kids like this a lot, and they really have to imagine what is being told.....they use cool sound effects and such...Good luck!

Well i dont have kids .But from what my mom used tell me (usually that contains some good message) I liked a certain characters and wanted them to hear them time and again.I think they have had some good influences which can not be expressed by words...

well i dun have kids m still doing my graduations:) but i tell stories to my little cousins wnever m der wid them... dey alwaz wanna hear 1

yes ...i have the same opinion as uhave ..they hepl their brain to develop..i usually buy books and read them from there ..because they are interesting with drawings

never ever

oh, yes. i read fairy tales to my nephews. some people say it's not good to let children believe in happily-ever-afters, because real life does not work that way. but i believe kids learn a lot of moral values in these fairy tales. what's your opinion?

i dont have kids yet, if i will have soon id love to read them stories from the book of books called the bible..

yes i do. i believed in fairy tales that my mom and dad used to narrate. and i would like my children to know about all those amazing stories.

I use to tell stories ,probably 2 to 3 to my daughter everyday.because she doesn't satisfies with one.yes, it definetly increases imagination and creativity in the child.I suggest you don't buy story books.just buy "magic pot"(it costs you Rs.12).it's fortnight childeren magazine which contains not only stories also contains activities and lots more.otherwise subscribe it.its saves money also.here are some sites www.starfall.com ; www.noggin.com ; www.scholastic.com. if you want more information write me back

i dont have kids yet.. but when i do i'll also tell them fairy tale stories before sleep it will make them feel relaxed and have a nice sleep the whole night.

When I was a kid, my parents never teels me feiry stories... and they never tells me stories about Santa claus, and christmas