When you were small, did you hear stories? Did you tell stories to your kids?

Hi Buchi, when I was a little girl, I like hearing stories from my parents. They liked telling those stories which were really interesting. Besides enjoying listening these attractive old popular Chinese legends we did learn lots of valuable moral lessons through them. My mom liked telling jesting stories. She felt so delighted when seeing us burst into laughter after listening to the famous Chinese stories with joke I borrowed that story book from the school library and read it myself during my senior elementary school. The stories teach us what we are supposed to do or don’t depending on different situations. They are still lots of valuable moral lessons to learn from the funny stories. As far as I know it is a book written in Chinese only. I recommend you to read it if you understand mandarin. I bet people around you will hear your laughter every now and then while you are reading Happy posting

Hi Buchi, My grandparents used to tell stories about legends and folklores that me and my siblings and cousins enjoyed. Now i am doing it too with my kids but my stories are more on fairytales.

My parents never told me bedtime stories that I know of. I never read any to my daughter either. She just was not interested in them or reading. I wasn't either. I never liked to read. The only stories I ever heard was when my parents were growing up.

Hi Buchi, Yes I had chances to listen stories not from my parents but from my grandfather. He used to tell stories when he got a topic for discussion and he is explaining the same by telling a story from ‘Mahabharath’ or ‘Ramayan’. He explained his own experiences, about his childhood and how hard he worked to earn money etc. I do tell stories to my kids, not everyday but occasionally. I think we are missing the advantage of joint family system where grandparents were there to narrating interesting stories.

hi aunty, yes, i use to tell stories to my kids, they like stories, songs, before going to sleep they will ask me to tell stories, atleast one story have to tell otherwise they won't sleep, sometimes they will ask me to sing laali laali the movie from (swatimutyam). my both kids like that song very much, thanks for your topic, have a nice day.

Hi aunty, when i was small i use to listen to the stories from my parents & grandparents. I had a interest in listening to the stories. When my grandmother use to tell me the real life horror stories i was curiously listening to that. And now i tell the same to my niece. She is also interested, Now a day to tell her i have stared to read story books.

Hey, when i was little, my siblings use to tell me fantasy stories to put me to bed. They also tell me stories about their past life, how they were when they were little, how they get into troubles and get away with it. Those kind of stuff, fun and exciting!

Hi, buchi No one told me fairy tale stories nor urban legends when I was a kid. I came to know about Snow White and Cinderella while watching TV. That was ok, though, I was a voracious reader during my teenage years and so I think I was able to catch up. Have a nice day!

yeah , when we were just little kids, my mother used to tell stories in bed to us, i still recall the stories up to now because the story was repeated all over again, almost every night.

Yes. I will tell my children stories at bed time to make him sleep quickly. They enjoy it. Mostly it is about animals and some times regarding any action oriented stories. I don't remember if my parents or siblings told me any stories when i was small.

yes I do specially urban ghost stories, some are really true some are just hear-says but those time I did enjoy those stories even now I still do remember some of it' and also some of my younger nieces enjoys it very specially putting them down to sleep.