Hellobee Boards Topic: Do you tell stories to your LO?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Do you tell stories to your LO? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:41:29 +0000 T-Mom on "Do you tell stories to your LO?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-tell-stories-to-your-lo#post-323021 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:35:20 +0000 T-Mom 323021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My DD, age 4, also recently started asking for stories. Mine are so boring, but she seems satisfied. She has also started making up her own stories. crunch on "Do you tell stories to your LO?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-tell-stories-to-your-lo#post-321001 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:55:50 +0000 crunch 321001@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I just told a "story" last night, accept all I did was mix 10 fairy tales together (i.e., 3 little pigs went into the forest and saw a house made out of candy where 7 little dwarfs lived). Um, thankfully, my LO is only 8 weeks old. My DH gave me the "you are one strange woman" look. -=] I'll need to brush up on my imagination! LemonLong on "Do you tell stories to your LO?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-tell-stories-to-your-lo#post-320794 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:18:28 +0000 LemonLong 320794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My husband's family is famous for what they call "Johnny stories" they were started years ago by a great-great someone and passed down through the family, with each family giving it their own twist. They always start with a boy named Johnny walking into the forest and then there's talking animals, witches, and all kinds of stuff. We plan on doing Johnny stories for our kids. We went to a recent reunion and it was so much fun to hear all the different Johnny stories and everyone from adult to kid had such fond memories of them. Honeybee on "Do you tell stories to your LO?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-tell-stories-to-your-lo#post-320781 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:13:23 +0000 Honeybee 320781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We've been telling stories with DD for a while; I love it! Our usual routine is to read one book, and then she gets two stories and two songs. Sometimes she wants us to tall her a story (I tell her stories about her and Nana having great adventures; DH tells fairytales or nursery rhymes); sometimes she tells us stories. Then we sing two songs and leave the room. Lately, she's been telling her stuffed animals stories until she falls asleep, or when she wakes up in the morning before we go get her. HLK208 on "Do you tell stories to your LO?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-tell-stories-to-your-lo#post-320236 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:08:37 +0000 HLK208 320236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have but clearly, I'm not a great story teller because DS never asks for more! I've mostly told him real stories though, nothing too crazy. Maybe I should start! mrbee on "Do you tell stories to your LO?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-tell-stories-to-your-lo#post-320230 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:02:29 +0000 mrbee 320230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I think I made a mistake last night... After I read Charlie his usual books last night, he kept begging for more. I didn't want to set a precedent where I read more than books than usual, so I made up a random story. I told him about Charlie ("the world's greatest adventurer") and how he got a call on his phone from a little boy in Africa who couldn't sleep and so he flew across the ocean to Africa... but on the way he was attacked by the Blue Baron in his aircraft (clearly, the brother of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen">Red Baron</a>). Then Charlie (the world's greatest adventurer) shot down the Blue Baron's airplane but he saved the Blue Baron when he was coming down in his parachute and then they became best friends. Then when he landed in Africa, the Blue Baron was an expert in sleep and helped the little boy fall asleep. I was totally unprepared for the response. Charlie LOVED the story! He went bananas in a way he simply doesn't go when I read him a book. So I told him another story, which turned out to be about how Charlie's dad (i.e. me) fought a lion and defeated him then he rode on the lion's back and then they came across a tiger and a witch... but the witch turned out to be Charlie's mom (Mrs. Bee!) and the tiger turned out to be Smokey the Cat! When I revealed that the witch was really Charlie's mom and the tiger was really Smokey the cat... Charlie's jaw literally dropped and he gasped! It was a reaction that we have never ever gotten when reading him a book. After that I was too tired, and so I told Charlie to tell *me* a story. He got soo excited and told me this really complicated story involving dragons that I didn't really understand but that quoted heavily from all the books we read him. Then he fell into a deep slumber... and when he awoke, the first thing he asked me to do was to tell him more stories! So, now I'm wondering if anyone else tells stories to their LO... and how they balance story telling with book reading? Tonight Charlie didn't even want me to read him books, which is literally unprecedented... we went straight into the stories and then he fell into a deep sleep. I feel like I'm in uncharted territory! Do you tell stories to your LO?