How to Create the Perfect Storytime for Your Kids

A storytime tradition before bed is the perfect opportunity to bond with your kids, and it can help them develop important skills. It provides kids with a familiar ritual and one they look forward to. Kids looking forward to storytime can make the bedtime process easier on parents. The trick, of course, is setting up the right bedtime and storytime tradition to ensure that the process is a fun, exciting one rather than a chore. Actively involving your kiddo in the process and including a personalized childrens book in the reading rotation can make bedtime more fun.

 

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Make Reading Together a Bedtime Tradition

Reading together with children provides a whole variety of benefits. It’s the perfect opportunity for essential bonding time. Reading together inspires the imagination, aids critical thinking, and can help kindle a lifelong love of reading, to name a few of those benefits.

No to Electronic Devices, Yes to Activities Before Bed

Electronic devices before bed, including smartphones and tablets, can make sleep more difficult for kids. Confine screen time to the afternoon or early evening instead of before bedtime. Instead of watching a show or movie before storytime and bedtime, play games, play with toys or blocks, take a light walk, or another activity that helps get a little bit of energy out.

Make Your Child Part of the Process

One of the potential challenges of establishing a storytime and bedtime tradition is kids feeling like they are not part of a mutually fun experience. Kids can feel like they are just being told to go to bed with a story as a consolation prize. Make your kids part of the process by allowing them to participate more fully in it. Have your child choose the book they get to read, the non-electronic activity before reading and bedtime, the stuffed animal they take to bed, and the PJs they get to wear.

Get a Personalized Story Book

Kids often just love a fun adventure, a funny story, or a magical journey of the imagination. The only thing kids love more is when they get to be the star of those stories. Find a company that creates custom personalized story books and have one made up for your little hero.

Choose Stories That Emphasize Positive Principles

In addition to the numerous other benefits of storytime before bed, the story that you read can also provide an opportunity to emphasize positive messages and principles. Include titles in the reading rotation that reinforce the importance of self-respect and self-esteem, empathy, generosity, friendship, and the like. As a personalized kids book is likely to become a favorite, go through a company like My Magic Story that specializes in fun, funny, and exciting personalized kids books that focus on positive principles.

About My Magic Story

The creators of My Magic Story personalized story books have always had an abundant source of inspiration—the vast imaginations of children. Nowhere is that inspiration clearer or more exhilarating than in the personalized childrens book, The Magic of My Name. The Magic of My Name makes kids heroes in their own story. Every story is unique and based on the letters in kids’ names, with each letter being the focus of its own adventure and having its own magical meaning. The Magic of My Name stories also include positive values, like https://www.mymagicstory.com/ self-confidence, friendship, and generosity. As My Magic Story continue to add magical, inspiring, and beautiful kids personalized books to their collection, they will keep finding new ways to remind every single kid that they’re a hero. Give the little hero in your life the priceless gift of imagination, magic, and adventure with the stories in The Magic of My Name, brought to you by My Magic Story.

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