Read a Bedtime-Story for My Brother

Read a Bedtime-Story for My Brother

I’ve read ‘The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum’ lately, and I was amazed by the story it carried. I thought “It would be good if I told this story for children!” Therefore, I tried to do that to my brother. His name is Adityas Sulistya Nova Anggoro. He’s 5 years old, and is studying on the first grade of elementary school in my village. He’s a very lovely child.

 Because it was my first time to read a bedtime-story, I felt really really worried and excited at the same time. Worried, because I don’t know how to do it or how I will get it started, and how if it turns out to be boring and his respond do not like what I’ve imagined. And I felt excited, because I want to do it for him, since bedtime-stories are very good for children’s brain development.

I began the story by –you know- “once upon a time, there was …” and as time passed, I thought that it was such an enjoyable activity, because my brother got really excited to hear that story. He remembers the names of the characters, and always asks me this and that. I didn’t tell him the whole story of that book, because I thought that that was too complicated for a five-year-old boy. So, I just told him the main point and the messages it carried. And I tell you, I told this story using Indonesian because his vocabularies of English are still about the name of nouns.

The thing I want to tell you is that reading a bedtime-story is quite fun. Besides has many advantages for children’s brain development, it also helps us to set their mind to value books. And I suggest you to choose stories which are fit the children’s age, because it related to their brain development.

Other thing to consider is the message it carried. You have to choose stories which will bring good message so that children can learn something from those stories. If there’s some parts of the story that are not good or show bad examples of habit, you can throw them away or you can told it to them, but don’t forget to remind them that that was not good. At the end, don’t forget to evaluate the messages or values the stories carried.

Ask them sometimes, whether they understand the story or not, or whether they got the ‘direction’ you give, and at the end of the story, tell them the values of the story, and ask them to give their opinion and we can see their point of view, and if they have problems, they will share it with you, if you can be their comfort place to share anything.

So, this is my reading bedtime-story experience, and my little brother now love to hear my story every night before he’s going to sleep. So, why don’t you create your own reading bedtime-story experience?