{"id":687,"date":"2009-09-03T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2009-09-03T20:50:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T00:50:42","slug":"storytime-august-31-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/storytime-august-31-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytime, September 3 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jake

Jake and Tricia at Storytime<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0If you have not yet been to a story-time at a local library I highly suggest you try it.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of the local library branches offer toddler times, preschool times and some even have a baby lap sit time.\u00a0 Check your local Library for the listings. Story-time is a free “classroom experience” with a teacher\u00a0and a plan.\u00a0 The children are able to be guided by the teacher to dance, sing and play games together.\u00a0 They also learn how to listen to different books\u00a0 and they end with creating a special art project that will soon be on your refrigerator.\u00a0\u00a0It is a wonderful pre-preschool experience for little ones.\u00a0 Your child feels secure because you are there with your child.\u00a0 As a parent you\u00a0are able to escape from the house and speak to adults for a change of pace as well as a change of scenery. \u00a0There is no ongoing commitment or sign up forms you just show up at the assigned time if you can make it and let the fun begin.<\/p>\n

Toddlers and especially 2 – 4 year olds seem to drink it all in at story- time.\u00a0 From the time we walk in the door and my children try to find the first letter of his\/her name on the letter carpet.\u00a0 To the time they get to listen to stories told from a teacher they wear a permagrin (permanent smile).\u00a0 It is great exposure for shy children to interact with a teacher, especially when it is acceptable even recommended that the parent let the child sit in their lap during story-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who doesn’t love to hear a good story.\u00a0 To sit on the edge of your seat and wait for the page to be turned.\u00a0 Whether it be a person reading it to you or that “narrator” in your head.\u00a0 Don’t we all love to get caught up in a good book to be transported somewhere else in time out of our own little corner of the world?\u00a0 Storytellers have been around since the beginning of mankind.\u00a0 Oral tradition was how people learned of their ancestors and the traditions they should carry on. The Bible originally came from stories told generation after generation until finally they were written down.\u00a0 If you go to church most places the minister or priest acts as a storyteller, preaching,\u00a0 homilizing\u00a0 or reading scriptures of the Bible.<\/p>\n

Have you ever attended a Corn Island Storytelling Festival?\u00a0\u00a0Storytellers from all over the United States spellbind their audiences from\u00a0outdoor stages in parks where families gather for an evening of intrigue and imagination.\u00a0\u00a0It’s as though the park melts away and you are the hero in the story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

You as a mom are a storyteller!\u00a0 What stories do you tell your child?\u00a0Do you tell your child stories of your childhood?\u00a0 Mine eat those stories up. Do you tell your child stories of how you dated your spouse, stories\u00a0of the world, the good ones hopefully not too much of the bad?\u00a0 Do you tell your child stories about God?\u00a0 Does your child know the story of Christmas?\u00a0 Does your child know about Noah’s ark or Adam and Eve?\u00a0 These are stories every mom can tell\u00a0simple yet\u00a0interesting.<\/p>\n

Tonight when your child asks for a bedtime story instead of absentmindly reading or reciting the Rainbow Fish for the 1,000th time\u00a0try telling a story.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tonight be a storyteller who takes your child to another place in time, your childhood, your courtship or even to God.\u00a0 If you make the effort to take that little journey out of time you may just form a memory that lasts a lifetime not just for your child but for yourself as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0If you have not yet been to a story-time at a local library I highly suggest you try it.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of the local library branches offer toddler times, preschool times and some even have a baby lap sit time.\u00a0 Check your local Library for the listings. Story-time is a free “classroom experience” with a teacher\u00a0and a plan.\u00a0 The children are able to be guided by the teacher to dance, sing and play games together.\u00a0 They also learn how to listen to different books\u00a0 and they end with creating a special art project that will soon be on your refrigerator.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[172,174,173,170,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}