Bed time stories and the aftermath……..

Bhargavi dear glad to know you grew up listening to bed time stories from your grandmother. Their stories are worth listening and you are lucky to have heard from them and good that you picked up the morals too. Glad now your son is listening to the bed time stories. I am sure he will be also like his mama an all rounder.

 

hi dear


my dad use to tel me bed time stories like hat seller and monkey and kings stories. i enjoyed his way of narration like how horse makes sound while running that memories are very precious. i want to learn some nice stories to tell my little one in future . nice post !!

 

Dear Bhargavi,

Story telling and reading books for children are becoming thing of the past. I am so happy to hear a proud mother not only writing about her experience of listening to moral stories but also doing it to her son. I used to tell bed time stories to my son when he was young and it built a great amount of bonding between the two of us. My wife used to teach him slokas to him Even though, he is very smart in making decisions of his own now at the of 23 (turning 24 in November), he still validates all his decisions with both of us.

You are creating a remarkable impact in the mind of your son and keep doing it as long as you could. I wish the best for your son and he will do great with such a wonderful mother.

Viswa

 

Its so nice Bhargavi that you tell bed time stories to your son. The Jataka tales, Panchatantra tales, Aesop's fables, they make such an interesting read and also interesting for story telling.
There are a lot of good take aways from it and will definitely benefit you son in the long run and when we are ourselves affected in some way, the morals just boost us and make us strong to undergo the challenges of life!

 

Bhargavi this is what Parenting.You had a good Parenting and now you are giving back to your DS.This is the treasure we give to our children and they do a wonderful Parentage to us when we become old.My son always say "Ma don't think of the traitors and spoil your health.You have lost nothing but earned Good children"Don't think of the past and make yourself hurt.Very nice writeup dear.

 

Thanks for sharing and reminding.

I also grew up on stories. Loads of them. Initially Dad would tell us stories at bedtime or on weekend afternoons. Me mom and dad were all at same school them as teachers and me as student. Later when mom had additional responsibility of school library, I was a happy kid. She would open the book shelves at school when the teachers had meeting, and I would put a chair inside reading right there. During holidays we would bring dozens of them and finish within a few days. There would be a book seller in weekly bazaar and we would get two books each week. Need to check the family archives and get those Gulbakawali, Hatim, Sinbad, Sinhasan Battisi.
Vaidehi

 

Thats a nice piece Bhargavi Madam. Enjoyed reading it and liked the way you applied those stories to adults as well. Thanks for sharing. Just a little try from my side:

Most of us had the privilege then
To hear a lot of great stories
From our dear grandparents when
We went to bed without a worry.

They sure opened the magic world,
Where animals and plants speak
And ended with a moral good as gold
Thats valued high and hard to seek.

When we grew up, we left them
Hidden in dark corners of the mind,
And dig out only a tenth of them
As others are so hard to find.

When we say them to our kids,
They are so happy and we're too.
For we discover what was hid
In those stories, and relish too.

Then we figure out that we are
Nothing but characters in them.
Flattery, deceit and haughtiness are
A few to which we react like them.

There is a little solace that we found.
We end up being the ones to lose
To the cunning ways of others around.
Glad that its not the other way around.