If we stopped to really think back to those early years, we might also remember that we had time restrictions and a need to unwind after a stressful day. It also doesn’t surprise me that kids, after a long day of activities, play dates, prep classes and whatnot, remember the pre-bedtime activities more than the cuddly night time read of say, Goodnight Moon. How could parents not read to their little ones at night? How could 4% not even own a children’s book? Frankly, given our modern day, two working family homes, it come as no surprise that bedtime might just be that … time for bed. What really goes on at bedtime and what about bedtime stories? You see, when I read the poll conducted with 2,000 British moms above, I was mortified.
Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.” Pat Conroy
“These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. “Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.” Julian Barnesīedtime Stories: What Do You Remember?- Collage of Popular Bedtime StorybooksĪnd the warmth of its July.” Winthrop Mackworth Praed Above and below are collages of some books I recall. And those bedtime stories we thought they were listening to? Let’s just say they were counting sheep in La La Land as we droned on about Peter Rabbit and Mrs Piggle Wiggle. How could that be possible? Oh, they remember bedtime alright but, they remember taking a bath, playing in the bathtub with their rubber ducks and bath toys, being playfully chased down the hallway, getting their hair brushed and getting tucked in bed. When I asked them for their favorite bedtime stories/memories, they assured me that they read all these books … by themselves! Em mm. I remember buying and reading almost all of the classic, popular books featured in this post, and we still have many of them on our bookshelves at home. What about bedtime? What about all the books shared in the collages above and below? I read them alright but, not necessarily at night. Yet, when I think of books and my earliest memory of them, I remember, vaguely, being read to by the fireplace on a cold winter’s day or curling up in bed with my mom on a Saturday morning to share a book. My Dad was an avid reader, and my Mom loved her magazines, cooking books and esoteric novels.
Why is that? Well, let’s just say that while bedtime meant bath/bedtime stories/sleep for adults, perhaps it meant bath/bedtime drift off to sleep/deep sleep for little kids. What are your memories of bedtime stories? We all have them … sorta! True, our memories of bedtime stories might not be what our parents think or remember. Bedtime stories for children dying out, NY Daily News, 2013 And perhaps most sadly, four percent said their children don’t own a single book. Though some parents cited time restrictions and stress as preventing them from tackling a book at night, nearly half of those surveyed said that their children simply preferred television, toys, or computer games to books. In fact, 36 percent of parents don’t read bedtime stories to their children at all. In a poll of 2,000 British mothers with children under the age of seven, only one in five said they read a book to their child every night. “Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with ghosts hovering around her.” Yolanda A. Bedtime Stories: What Do You Remember? – Collage of Popular Bedtime Storybooks
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