Bed Time Stories

Cinster · 10-15-2004, 09:45 PM

I am getting ready to go to bed and I was thinking about bed time stories, so I thought I would ask this wonderful little question. When you were little did your mommie/daddie/grandma/aunt/ect. tell you bed time stories? Later days!

~::Cin::~

**adamwagg** · 10-16-2004, 01:59 AM

yeah my nan used to make up stories that she told us, (she made them up on the spot). We loved them, but now i think about them they were all pretty much the same story - like most blockbuster hollywood action films are, same story different names

but they were cool

ThanksALatte · 10-16-2004, 02:06 PM

My dad used to tell us stories all the time. When he'd have to go away on business trips, he'd tape record them...one tape for each of my brothers and I.

Cinster · 10-16-2004, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ThanksALatte

My dad used to tell us stories all the time. When he'd have to go away on business trips, he'd tape record them...one tape for each of my brothers and I.

wow! That is so cool!! My parents never did bed time stories, then again when my mom had me she was 17 and so was my dad. That may have had something to do with it. But my nana would tell me bedtime stories when I would stay over with her. She even sang to me a few times that I can remember. Later days!

~::Cin::~

natedawg5280 · 10-16-2004, 02:23 PM

yeah a few... they read them.

Demon_Hunter · 10-16-2004, 03:15 PM

no bed time stories here.

and see how well i turned out (pointing at avy and sig)

natedawg5280 · 10-16-2004, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by demon_hunter

no bed time stories here.

and see how well i turned out (pointing at avy and sig)

lol... i'm not that great myself.

***BillSPrestonEsq*** · 10-16-2004, 06:05 PM

my dad used to read me Jack London's stuff, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Stephen Crane,etc. He censored the language a little, but those are perhaps my happiest memories.

My grandfather and great-grandmother told me family folklore. Such things as go well in woodcraft, and unfortunately quite a few ghost stories, and tales of my ancestors and the supernatural.

Cinster · 10-16-2004, 06:11 PM

I told my mom that tonight I want her to tell me a bedtime story and she thought I was crazy, but is it so much to ask? Later days!

~::Cin::~

GRibbit · 10-16-2004, 08:05 PM

For awhile when I was younger we'd get bedtime stories. Just when dad was home, though. He traveled a lot..like 2-3 weeks out of each month, so it was a special thing when we got a bedtime story.
Normally we would all gather in the living room and read out of the Precious Moments book gramma got us, usually we'd read a chapter of Little House on the Prairie. Sometimes, after the story one of my parents would come in and rub my back and tell me another story.
Very very special times there.

ThanksALatte · 10-16-2004, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Cinster

I told my mom that tonight I want her to tell me a bedtime story and she thought I was crazy, but is it so much to ask? Later days!

~::Cin::~

You're not crazy. I was a dorm mom for a group of staff at a camp this summer, and they asked me for stories. Some of them still call or email and ask me even now. (And yes, I make them up)

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**Becky** · 10-17-2004, 12:55 AM

Yup

almost every night

it was really awesome, my sisters and I hopped into my mom and dad's bed, and dad would read us a story. it was great bonding time. we all loved it

jbm222 · 10-17-2004, 02:04 AM

My mom and dad never read me bedtime stories, but my grandpa used to read me stories all the time. I remember this one story I made him read to me all the time that was about these pigeons in San Fransico. I think they had a nest on a sign somewhere that was being taken down, so some nice person moved the nest somewhere else and they lived happily ever after.

But Where's Waldo was my favorite book when I was little. I had Where's Waldo sheets, I watched the cartoon, my dad painted him on my wall (along with a giant dinosaur that covered an entire wall... i grew up on the first land before time)... I could find waldo in Time Square on New Years Eve if I had too... really it's kind of creepy when you think about... it's like a book training kids to stalk men who dress funny...

Sunkist · 10-17-2004, 11:38 PM

I remember reading books with my mom before I went to sleep. Sometimes she would tell stories. Ah, good times.

Anyone else remember the book Bedtime for Frances? It was about a little raccoon (I think) who didn't want to go to sleep.

JESOd · 10-17-2004, 11:42 PM

my parents could care less about me, but my lola (tagalog for grandmother) had kinda sung to me... like the lyrics being na na nite go to sleep na na nite go to sleep...etc.

i know have my bed time stories told by adam carolla and dr. drew on my radio. ...stupid show. easy to fall asleep to.