I'm just interested in how many parents tell their children a story at bedtime be it from a book or otherwise.

What story will you tell your children tonight?

i always read to the little girls I babysit for, they're so sweet! They're only 5 and 7 and don't believe anymore, its really sad.

And when I was a little girl, there was a story thats been passed down my family to read every night on Christmas Eve, I can't remember what it is now.

i tell the grandkids bed time stories when they come to stay

I used to read to our two at bedtime and sometimes made up really pathetic stories. Amazingly at the age of 35+ they remember that Dad used to make up some really great bedtime stories.
I now read to our G/daughter and make up stories the heros/herooines ofwhich have to resemble her own life.
It's great bonding.

Originally posted by davyboy
I used to read to our two at bedtime and sometimes made up really pathetic stories. Amazingly at the age of 35+ they remember that Dad used to make up some really great bedtime stories.
I now read to our G/daughter and make up stories the heros/herooines ofwhich have to resemble her own life.
It's great bonding.

that sounds lovely!, children love to hear of tales that sound familiar to them, especially ones of when you were a child.

Niecelet has stories in lots of situations, and has sat quietly to have books read to her since she was only a few months old.

Her favourites are quite surreal ones, like the Gruffalo books, but Mummy does a very good job on endlessly changing Goldilocks and the Three Bears round to have a different moral every time too.

She has a pop up picture book version of The Night Before Christmas for tonight's story.

we always read the nippers bedtime stories, trouble is they always want 1 each
the eldest (6 nearly 7) is starting to read now, so is starting to read her own :)

I used to give my son a cast of characters (e.g. a little boy, a little girl, a witch, a wizard, a good fairy, a dog, a cat etc) and tell him he could just choose six. Then I would make up a story around the characters he'd chosen.

I tell them stories the whole time, like all day long, not just at bedtime!

Originally posted by lizzmobile
I tell them stories the whole time, like all day long, not just at bedtime!

I KNOW you do you big fruit cake!!!!!