Bedtime Stories my Kids Love

Do you remember the nights when your parent or guardian would often read you a book before you fall out to sleep? Well me, I don’t. Probably because my parents separated when I was young and I grew up in the care of my grandmother. My parents got back together when I was in grade three, and that’s when they had my youngest brother. They live for a couple of years and then finally separated for good. Looks like forever doesn’t exist with them. Well it was much better than being together but had an endless misunderstanding. So going back to my first question, since I didn’t got the chance to to heard any bedtime stories at night when I was still a kid, I promise myself that my kids would definitely hear one every night.

Reading bedtime stories to my kids was fun. They love it when I am into character while I was reading the story to them. That was why whenever we were at the mall, we would always drop by at book sale or any bookstore and I let them chose the books that they want. There were so many books to chose from, but books from Adarna House publishing has a great stories specially for little children. Let me share to you some of my kids all time favourite storybooks we bought from the bookstore a few years back. The stories were in Tagalog but some had an english translation. I will share a brief summary of each story and the moral lesson from it. So let’s begin.

Si Ching na takot sa dilim ( Ching a boy who is afraid of the dark)

The story is about a boy who was really afraid of the dark. He would always thought that when its dark ghosts, and other scary creatures would attack him that was why he always carried a flashlight with him. The story ends very well because he was able to conquered his fear. This was my 1st son’s favorite story, because just like Ching he was also very afraid of the dark when he was still young. He was inspired on how the boy Ching was able to overcome his fears.

May Higante sa Aming bahay (There’s a giant inside our house)

The story is about a father who’s coming home after working overseas for a very long time. Matt Matt is the youngest son in the family and it’s gonna be the first time he will see this giant in person. He only saw him in the picture, and seeing him bigger than the picture makes him scared of him. The story ends up with Matt Matt realising that the giant in their house was no other than his father. My youngest son loves this story a lot, that he always requested this story from time to time. I think he can relate well with Matt Matt as their father was also working overseas.

Si Pilong patago tago ( Pilong, the boy who loves hiding)

This story is about a boy named Pilong. Pilong is a one naughty boy who loves to hide. He likes to prank everyone in the family by hiding to them a lot. Until one day his prank gone wrong. The moral story of the lesson was that, pranking is good but don’t overdo it for it might comes back to you.

Ang Barumbadong Bus ( A Arrogant Bus)

When I was in my last year of college I was working as a part time teacher aide in a private kindergarten school. That was where I heard about this story. One of the teachers read this story to her class and it became my favourite too. Years later, when I saw one on the bookstore I bought it instantly to share it with my kids. Ok to give you a brief summary of the story, this is about a bus named Kas. He was not afraid of everything and run as fast as he could that was why passengers were scared of him. Everyone was trying to stopped him but he didn’t listened. And because of his stubbornness something bad happened to him. The moral lesson of the story was being too proud of yourself will never do something good to you. We should stay grounded no matter how high we reached the top. Because being boastful will definitely destroy you in the end.

Final Thoughts

Reading a bedtime story to our kids has a lot of benefits to our young ones. This will develops their imagination and curiosity about a certain things. It will also teach them a lot of moral lesson they will be needed in growing up. And most of all it’s a great bonding moments between the children and parents or guardians.

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How about you? Do you have any favourite story back then? What it is? Can you still remember it? You can write it down below and I will be waiting for your response.

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