Opening Remarks
Well, my beautiful wife Joi has been doing one of these blog things for some time... I have wanted to do one, but found no reason to do one for myself. I have little to say that is important to anyone that I did not hear someone else say or read from someone else's hand.
The other day, I took my family to the International Goat Days Festival in Millington, TN. I was telling a story of a prior year when my daughters and I rode the stage coach with some other children. I am a fairly animated character, and I love to play with my children. One of the things I do fairly well is get the kids into stories. This particular time, the other children on the stage coach were full of realism, and couldn't imagine us going to Silver City (where my children and I were going). Along the way, we passed through injun country. This was the campground where the boyscouts were spending the night. By the time we made it to Silver City, the rest of the children were on board with the story. As I was retelling the story, I realized parents might need something to jump start their story telling.
This blog is my contribution to you parents telling stories to your children. Reading is great, but we need to do more. Read books with excitement and character voices. Pick a book and just go through it making up a story based on the pictures and without reading a word. Tell stories and have the kids fill in the blanks. Dress up as characters, and act out a story. There are a lot of techniques to telling stories, and most of them are great. If you wouldn't feel embarassed in front of your friends telling one of your stories, then they could probably be a lot better.
My stories come from real life experience and other peoples imaginations (mainly from books we have read, movies, and just about anything else). Whatever you do, don't just read my stories to your children. Animate it, but don't just read it.
My children beg for us to tell my little pony and jimmy joe bob stories all the time. We have other stories, but these are our main story lines. If you come back, you will learn more about these stories and others. I will be contributing the techniques we use to intrigue our children so that you can make your children salivate for more.
Lastly, this is something that passes along. I can testify to this in the short term. My oldest is only 6 right now, but she has already developed a Sissy and Sassy storyline for my mother and sisters dogs.
The other day, I took my family to the International Goat Days Festival in Millington, TN. I was telling a story of a prior year when my daughters and I rode the stage coach with some other children. I am a fairly animated character, and I love to play with my children. One of the things I do fairly well is get the kids into stories. This particular time, the other children on the stage coach were full of realism, and couldn't imagine us going to Silver City (where my children and I were going). Along the way, we passed through injun country. This was the campground where the boyscouts were spending the night. By the time we made it to Silver City, the rest of the children were on board with the story. As I was retelling the story, I realized parents might need something to jump start their story telling.
This blog is my contribution to you parents telling stories to your children. Reading is great, but we need to do more. Read books with excitement and character voices. Pick a book and just go through it making up a story based on the pictures and without reading a word. Tell stories and have the kids fill in the blanks. Dress up as characters, and act out a story. There are a lot of techniques to telling stories, and most of them are great. If you wouldn't feel embarassed in front of your friends telling one of your stories, then they could probably be a lot better.
My stories come from real life experience and other peoples imaginations (mainly from books we have read, movies, and just about anything else). Whatever you do, don't just read my stories to your children. Animate it, but don't just read it.
My children beg for us to tell my little pony and jimmy joe bob stories all the time. We have other stories, but these are our main story lines. If you come back, you will learn more about these stories and others. I will be contributing the techniques we use to intrigue our children so that you can make your children salivate for more.
Lastly, this is something that passes along. I can testify to this in the short term. My oldest is only 6 right now, but she has already developed a Sissy and Sassy storyline for my mother and sisters dogs.
posted by Shane Bradley at Sunday, September 10, 2006
2 Comments:
You are so cute. I am glad that my children have such a wonderful father who doesn't mind being silly for them.
So when are you going to post again?
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