Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Now I lay me down to sleep… As a child, between the ages of three-six, my parents would always read me a bedtime story each night before falling asleep. It didn’t matter how late it was, what television show was on, or what was going on in the outside world they would always drop everything and anything. When you’re a child, anything and everything can impact your life in so many different ways you’d never even realize it. We learn everything from our parents/legal guardians. As children, they are our teachers. The ones who are supposed to help us learn everything we need to know growing up so we can be prepared to face the real world when the time comes. Looking back now, I’m beyond grateful to see how each and every one of these stories have influenced my life in reading and writing. At the age of three, my mother and father started reading me bedtime stories. I had this ginormous book full of hundreds of different bedtime stories. Every story was different and had a different meaning. At the time, I was too young to understand the meaning behind each story or sometimes even know what they were talking about. Now that I’m older I realize the importance of reading together. It’s a key element to a child’s success in reading and writing. This is also a time in which you and your parents can spend enjoying each other’s company, and sharing your love for one another. Many special memories are created that involve you and your parents. Not to mention a time when the child can pay special attention to the story, the characters that are involved in the story, the plot, and the lessons that can be learned from the story that they are listening to. By being exposed to bedtime stories and other types of literature, it helps children develop comprehension and skills that are important to both the communication process and the development of educational skills. The older I got and the more stories we read, the more I started to comprehend the meaning behind each