| Parents promise themselves to give the best to their | | | | Introduce new words each time. Teach them words |
| children. The bar is high for parents to teach the kids | | | | like good, nice, wonderful, best all mean positive |
| values on tradition, discipline, language skills so as the | | | | happenings. Let them understand that bad, ugly, |
| kids grow up to be able citizens. The effort surely is | | | | wrong is negative. Teach them opposites like |
| rewarding when children imbibe the right things. | | | | day-night, up-down, sweet-bitter expressing them |
| Exploration is natural by committing mistakes. Parents | | | | with your hands and face. |
| should recognize and correct the wrong behaviour. | | | | In case you are tired and it is natural that fatigue |
| All children demand stories, be it eating time, a boring | | | | refrains you from being natural, then read a short |
| travel journey and surely it is a bed ritual. If you have | | | | story with nice colour patterns. Laze on a hammock |
| paucity of time juggling with chores, then invest in | | | | with your child on a holiday and narrate true stories |
| some interesting fairy tale bed time story books. | | | | about your childhood. All of us live vicariously through |
| Children's literature abounds with millions of elves, | | | | our children during their growing years. So the best |
| fairy, goblin, monster and sea devil stories. Interesting | | | | patterns are narrating a few lines about honesty, |
| colour pictures, expressions and touch-feel books are | | | | hard work and value about money. |
| available in the market. Rewarding the child through | | | | If the child has a habit of seeing pictures from a very |
| books is a valuable idea. | | | | keen age, the child gets easily adapted to a pattern |
| If you are reading a story, be enthusiastic. Use one | | | | of self study. Their orientation is structured and they |
| hand free to articulate exclamations, pauses, commas | | | | will focus on reading independently. Telling stories is |
| and happiness. Use up and down animated versions | | | | an art and all parents naturally master it. Bed times |
| and help the child participate. Children do not respond | | | | are special and make sure not to introduce scary |
| to routine and mundane reading. They are bored | | | | surprises and kids might visualize them in their dreams |
| easily by repetitive ordeals and let story sessions be | | | | causing nightmares. |
| bonding times. | | | | Actually the goblins, witches, wizards are to be |
| Both parents have to involve themselves either | | | | introduced necessarily to deem it as non emulative |
| simultaneously or choose alternate days to suit | | | | values. Hence like all other theories on raising kids, tell |
| schedules. The mind of the parent should be free and | | | | them stories rich in tradition, worldly pursuits and also |
| pending works should not interfere the narration. It is | | | | about the 'Almighty'. Teach them the sacrifice of |
| necessary, that one does the homework fool proof | | | | Christ and read them lucidly about Hindu mythology. |
| to answer surprising questions and explanations. | | | | |