Bedtime Stories Research Articles

A routine within a routine: Can bedtime yoga improve sleep for the whole family?

Parents often point to bedtime as a source of frustration, yet early bedtimes and sufficient sleep are important for children's development, learning, and behavior. ObjectivesThis pilot study aimed to assess the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a yoga-based bedtime routine in a sample of parent-child dyads from a rural community. MethodsUsing a waitlist control study design, children aged 2–5 years and their parent were randomized to either intervention (yoga) or control (bedtime story) groups. Pre- and post-intervention measures included the CHAOS, CSHQ, and FNPA scales. Height, weight, and waist circumference were measured by trained staff, while sleep and physical activity were tracked using accelerometry. ResultsOf the 15 dyads that completed all assessments, 13 (81.2%) completed at least 16 yoga sessions. CSHQ scores improved in both groups (Cohen's d 0.42 vs. 0.52 for intervention and control, respectively), and FNPA scores improved in the intervention group (Cohen's d = 0.4). The number of sessions completed was inversely correlated with changes in CHAOS score (r = −0.74, p = 0.003). DiscussionThese findings suggest that a yoga-based bedtime routine is feasible for families with 2-5-year-old children, with good adoption and adherence. Improvements in sleep and household chaos measures indicate that a yoga routine may be slightly more effective than a story-based one. This study provides preliminary support for further research on a yoga-based bedtime routine in a larger sample.

Subsidiary Learning Opportunities for the Sustainability of Early Child Development.

Dear Sir / Madam In our fast-paced, ever-changing world, the key to a sustainable future is increasingly recognized as nurturing the potential of the youngest members of society.(1). New estimates are that 250 million children (43%) younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries are at risk of not reaching their developmental potential (2). Early child development is the cornerstone upon which a sustainable future is built.(3) Subsidiary learning opportunities are found in the way a caregiver engages in conversation during mealtime, play, bedtime stories, and the wonder of discovering nature in a walk-through park.(4) Key Points Holistic Development: It fosters well-rounded children by encompassing cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development, ensuring they are academically proficient and possess crucial life skills like problem-solving, empathy, and resilience.(5). Early Exposure to Sustainability: this introduces children to sustainability, conservation, and responsible living through activities like gardening, recycling, and exploring nature, fostering an early appreciation for the environment. Cultural and Social Awareness: A global perspective fosters tolerance, understanding, and empathy towards different cultures and backgrounds. Parental Engagement: Subsidiary learning opportunities strengthen the bond to provide a stable, nurturing environment for their children’s growth, contributing to their overall development. Lifelong Learning: Children who are encouraged to explore and ask questions during these years are more likely to become curious, self-motivated learners throughout their lives. In conclusion, subsidiary learning opportunities are the unsung heroes of early child development, laying the groundwork for sustainable futures.

“Once upon a time… a beach sand grain”: a bed-time story and scientific outreach activity for young children to increase sediment literacy

Abstract Purpose Learning science in early years can cultivate children’s curiosity and enjoyment in exploring the world around them, laying the foundation for the progression of science learning and ultimately increasing science literacy. Here, we present an example of a tailored preschool scientific activity designed to enhance literacy about sediments and illustrate their importance to both humans and nature. Methods The activity centres around a captivating story detailing the journey of a sand grain from the mountains to the sea. This storytelling experience is enriched with hands-on observation of various sand grains, informative cards on key topics, and culminates in a creative colouring activity. Results To date, the activity has been repeated five times, engaging 110 children (from 2 to 10 years). It has yielded positive outcomes with both preschool and primary school students, as they were actively engaged in the story and delighted in handling and observing the magnified sand grains. Conclusions The activity was successfully implemented for preschool and primary school students, fostering engagement with the story and the sand samples. However, while the immediate engagement was evident, the impact on sediment literacy remains to be measured. Future structured evaluations are needed to assess the long-term effectiveness of such initiatives in enhancing sediment literacy among young learners.

Timun Mas “Melestarikan Budaya Lewat Cerita Rakyat”

Efforts to increase interest in reading and to preserve culture, especially traditional culture, which is increasingly marginalized day by day. need to reintroduce good moral values ​​for children. Therefore, the folklore of Timun Mas has content and benefits in instilling moral values ​​in life to determine whether an action is good or not in everyday life. The character values ​​in the folk tale "Timun Mas" are religious, honest, disciplined, hard working, creative, independent, curious, communicative, peace-loving and responsible. With these character values, this story can be an example for readers, especially children who really like stories as bedtime stories.

Investigating the Use of Bed-Time Stories and Moodle in EFL Classes: Attitudes, Benefits and Challenges

This study scrutinizes the effectiveness and the feasibility of an EFL story-based textbook supported by a Moodle platform in Moroccan high schools. Along with the use of Moodle as the learning management system, this study uses a story-based approach in foreign language teaching/learning. Before designing this story-based textbook, the researcher investigated the Moroccan EFL context to be more practical and the textbook stands on a solid ground by having an added value not just being repetitive. Therefore, a quantitative study was conducted to collect up-to-date data and see (a) whether stories are already used or not in Moroccan EFL classes (b) the benefits and challenges, if any, stories can have according to these teachers (c) some of the most challenging obstacles behind not using stories in Moroccan EFL classrooms. To answer these questions, a questionnaire was administered to 100 EFL teachers from Casablanca. The data collected through the questionnaire revealed that most informants appreciated the use of stories in EFL classes. Additionally, most of them perceive the story-based approach as a useful tool to help students develop language skills. To conclude, these findings suggest that stories help in boosting students’ motivation, retention, and thus developing language proficiency. The findings also provided some solutions to teachers’ common challenges while using stories.

Exploring Language Styles in Online Bedtime Stories for Children

As essential knowledge tools, books appeal to a broad audience, including children, teenagers, and parents, with Bedtime Stories particularly captivating for children at night. This study examines the sociolinguistic characteristics of Bedtime Stories, emphasizing the variety of language styles used by authors to engage a child's imagination. Analyzing children's stories from online sources, focusing on five selected narratives, the researchers reveal a range of language styles - formal, informal, casual, and colloquial - with conversational style being the most prevalent. Additionally, this study identifies diverse language functions, including expressive, directive, referential, and phatic, with a significant emphasis on expressive functions. These insights extend our understanding of language use in bedtime stories and suggest directions for future research. Further studies should explore a broader and more varied sample, utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods, deepening our grasp of language styles in children's literature, particularly in the digital era. This exploration is crucial for comprehending how adaptable and diverse language styles can effectively engage children globally, fostering their cognitive and emotional development in our interconnected world.

Pendidikan Agama Kristen Dalam Keluarga Berorientasi Pada Kehidupan Melalui Bed Stories

This research is dotted with the phenomenon of family life in the GKE Buntut Bali Congregation, Malan Island District, Katingan Regency through Bedstories (bedtime stories). The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of Christian Religious Education in life-oriented families through Bedstories (Bedtime Stories) in the GKE Buntut Bali congregation. This research uses descriptive qualitative methods with interview, observation, and documentation data collection techniques. Research findings reveal that generally parents in the GKE Hosanna Buntut Bali congregation have received bedtime stories from their predecessors, both fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers. But only some of them are able to pass on to later generations, with categories always, rarely, not even doing so at all. The obstacles faced when telling stories before going to bed are the influence of technology, such as television and cellphones.

Parents’ Experiences on a Family Literacy Program in Finland

In this article, we investigate a family literacy program called Bedtime Story Shelf, which is an application of lending libraries. In Bedtime Story Shelf-program the families are loaning books from ECE centers and schools to homes. In the study, we present parents’ prior (N = 122) on this program and its relation to families’ prior literacy practises. According to the results, almost all the families took advantage of the Bedtime Story Shelf-activity. However, about half of the families loaned books from the shelf more often. These families also evaluated the activity as more meaningful. They felt that loaning libraries enabled them to expand their knowledge of children’s books and made the children more active in family literacy events. These positive effects did not depend on the prior literacy practises of the family. This means that if we get the families involved in family literacy programs of ECEs and schools, they will find them beneficial. According to the study, one of the key objectives would be motivating the children and involving the parents. Furthermore, the educators should be active and flexible in their attempts to involve all the families.

Empowering parents in a bedtime storytelling program for children during a pandemic

This article discusses parental empowerment in guiding children during online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This program is carried out with a focus on telling stories before going to sleep. The dedication method strengthens parents' understanding that it is essential to tell bedtime stories to increase children's emotional development. The results of the program's implementation show that telling bedtime stories to parents are beneficial for children's development in morals, imagination, interest in reading, and knowledge. This activity also affects the language and emotional intelligence of children. In online learning, the role of parents is essential in accompanying children. This program is carried out as part of KKN at the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia to overcome the impact of COVID-19 in the education sector. Parents' application of bedtime stories significantly benefits children's development, especially during a pandemic. Parents can apply this method to support children's stories and in subsequent programs to assess the program's effectiveness in the longer term.

HAK DAN KEWAJIBAN ORANG TUA TERHADAP ANAK BERDASARKAN PASAL 45 UNDANG UNDANG NOMOR 1 TAHUN 1974 TENTANG PERKAWINAN

Humans are destined with the nature of zoon politicon, they always live in groups in a group called society. Living alone without other people somewhere is not human nature as a creature, even if there are people who live alone, it's a bedtime story and in the middle of the story they will definitely be met and get along with each other as an absolute necessity. It is human nature to live side by side with other humans and try to carry on offspring by means of marriage. Marriage is a physical and spiritual bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife with the aim of forming a happy and eternal family (household) based on the One Godhead. with the aim, among other things, to get offspring who will continue and replace the generation that gave birth to them. The purpose of this study was to find out how the rights and obligations of parents towards children based on Article 45 of Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning Marriage. Based on Article 45 and Article 46 of Law no. 1 of 1974, the obligation of parents to care for and educate their children until they marry and can stand alone. This also means that even if the child is married if, in fact, it cannot stand alone, it is still the obligation of parents to take care of their children, wives, and grandchildren. This is different from what is regulated in the Civil Code that the obligation does not only extend to adult children (aged 18 years) but until they are able to stand on their own even though the marital ties of their parents are broken. Children must respect their parents and obey their goodwill. If the child is an adult, he is obliged to take care of his parents and family in a straight line up according to his ability, if they need his help

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey)

Abstract Aramaic-speaking Christian communities used to be found in large numbers in various towns and villages throughout southeastern Turkey before the large-scale migration under duress as a consequence of the hostilities in the First World War and its aftermath. Marga was once the home of one such large community of Aramaic-speaking Christians who fled to northwestern Iraq or dispersed over the globe. This paper documents new data and provides a preliminary grammatical description of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by the Christians of Marga (Margaye) from a comparative dialectological perspective. It presents an overview of the characteristic features, some of which are archaic and are no longer (as) productive in other dialects. This outline is accompanied by a short sample text narrating the tale of Xazalok and Dalalok, a bedtime story well-known to people in this region.

Bedtime Stories: Audiobooks, Podcasts, and Reading as Listening (and Sleeping)

This essay approaches sleep podcasts as bedtime stories, exploring the contradictory phenomenology of reading and listening while falling asleep. The first part categorizes audiobook and podcast listening as aural reading through an expanded definition of aurality and a logic of mediated self-control. The essay then proposes a concept of so(m)niferous reading to describe the paradoxical audio-textual inattentiveness that mediates the experience of going to sleep in a typical sleep podcast like Drew Ackerman’s Sleep With Me (2013). Finally, the essay contextualizes the so(m)niferous reading of audiobooks/podcasts in the discourse of children’s bedtime stories, raising critical questions about the subjectivity and agency of so(m)mniferous readers in the contemporary sleepscape.

NILAI-NILAI PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DAN PERSEPSI MASYARAKAT TERHADAP CERITA RAKYAT KERINCI “SAKUNUNG-SAKUNUNG NINAU"

The purpose of this study was to describe the value of character education and public perceptions of the Kerinci folklore. This research is in the form of qualitative research and uses a descriptive approach. The study used was a sociology of literature study, the data source used was a folklore book entitled Sakunung-Sakunung Ninau originating from Koto Tuo, the indigenous people of Pulau Tengah as well as articles from the internet, journals and other supporting books. Based on the research results, there are values ​​of character education in the folklore of Kerinci Sakunung-Sakunung Ninau. In general, the five aspects of character education values ​​proclaimed by the Ministry of Education and Culture, namely Religious, Nationalist, Independent, Mutual Cooperation and Integrity are contained in the story of the Sakunung-Sakunung Folk. Sakunung Ninau, according to the community's perception, the three respondents said that Sakunung Ninau is a bedtime story filled with advice. It can be concluded that the folklore of Kerinci Sakunung-Sakunung Ninau has character education values, as well as the public's perception that Sakunung Ninau contains advice.

The Influence of Visible Cables and Story Content on Perceived Autonomy in Social Human–Robot Interaction

From teaching technical skills to telling bedtime stories, social robots support various edutainment tasks that require smooth communication. Previous studies often emphasized the importance of the autonomy of social robots for those tasks. However, the cabling of robots with power sources and/ or host computers is often required due to technical restrictions. However, it is currently unclear if the cabling of robots makes a difference in perceived autonomy. Therefore, this study examined the influence of visible cables in different tasks on the perception of a social robot. In an online survey, participants evaluated videos of a social robot that was either equipped with a cable or not and told either a story with technical educational content or socially entertaining content. No significant differences were revealed between the cabled and the non-cabled robot, neither for the perceived autonomy nor for the associated concepts of the Godspeed questionnaire series. In addition, the story content did not influence perceived autonomy. However, the robot that told the technical content was perceived as significantly more intelligent and tended to be perceived as more likable than the robot that told the social content. Moreover, the interaction effect of cabling and story content for perceived safety just failed to reach the conventional level of significance. In the social content condition, the non-cabled robot tended to be perceived as less safe than the cabled robot. This was not true for the technical content condition. In conclusion, the results showed the importance of considering story content. Due to methodological limitations of the current study, namely, the lack of gestures accompanying the storytelling and the video-based approach, the missing effect of cabling in regard to perceived autonomy should be investigated in the future via real-life interaction studies.

The book and the pen: reading biography and writing autobiography as feminist project in Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and I Am A Rebel Girl

ABSTRACT Global publishing phenomenon Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls launched a wave of biography aimed at children. Styled as feminist bedtime stories and as a reinvention of the fairy tale, the trademark celebratory biographical arcs which focus on women’s lives and stories as heroic have also attracted critique. This paper argues that Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls draws deliberate attention to both the limits and possibility of biography as a genre that has distinctive, ideological, and cultural power in conferring visibility and status to the subjects of representation. In interactive journal pages appended to each Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls volume, and in publications like I Am A Rebel Girl, the reader becomes a participant in the biographical project, invited to practise auto/biography and to create their own ‘rebel’ story. Rebel Girls work within the limits of but also models a potential for auto/biography as a feminist, activist tool, available to be taken up self-consciously by a generation of ‘rebel’ readers who may themselves become the rebel writers of their own or others’ lives, inventing and evolving the possibility for biography as a feminist mode.

How Ambonese Read: Challenges and Opportunities to Preserve Maluku Folklore and Culture

Preserving culture can be done through the folklore that are passed down from generation to generation. The main aim of this survey is to see the challenges and opportunity for Maluku Folklore preservation. This research provides an insight on the students’ reading habit and preference, the availability of Maluku Folklore, and students’ perception on Maluku folklore. The data collected 248 responses through an online survey. The result highlighted several interesting information; 1) Despite the result show respondents perceived reading as their hobby, their preference activity shows that in their free time books are not the first choice and the culture of bedtime stories and/or being read to by parents are an uncommon practice. 2) Students rarely read Maluku Folklore unless it is an assignment from school. 3) Students believed that Maluku Folklore is not as popular and available compared to folklore from other parts of Indonesia. 4) Maluku Folklore is not readily available for students to find and consume. 5) Students prefer to read on digital and online platforms compared to the printed ones. 6) Opportunities for preservation can be done by embracing the technology and internet to tapped in to the current young people reading preferences and habit.

Open-Circuit Narrative: Programmed Reading in Richard Powers

Abstract Long before the eight-stranded weave of ecocritical plot in Richard Powers's Pulitzer Prize–winning The Overstory (2018) and, since then, the interlace between inset astrobiological bedtime stories and the environmentalist passions of family psychodrama in his Booker-nominated Bewilderment (2021), an important turn-of-the-millennium work by this MacArthur-lauded novelist, Plowing the Dark (2000), remains his most strenuous venture in what this article calls the open-circuit structure of his typical multi-plot narratives. Scenes of secretly funded VR aesthetics in the high-tech America of “research and development” are pitted against the contrasting affect, emphatically detached in space and time, of savage sensory deprivation suffered by an Arab American US citizen as jihadist prisoner in Beirut. Only at the eleventh hour of plot time is this man's plight revealed, by proximate cause, to render him, in retrospect, the indirect victim (spoiler alert) of electronic sophistication in American's “wired wars.” Until then, reading swerves between alternate and seemingly unrelated spaces of cyber-optic volatility and cognitive evacuation, virtual over against vitiated—with an all-too-real network of violence hard-wiring them imperceptibly to each other. Beyond the latent dialectic of these disjunct prose episodes, the novel critiques a world “formed” on quite different principles, whose geopolitical systems it confronts on fiction's own resistant verbal terms. To argue the contrary—that literary and societal forms are different from each other only in degree or scale—is, in an especially leveling sense, to rescind crucial differences between the force of depiction and world of force, which every lucid nuance of Powers's unique narrative style would resist.

Moral Value in Bedtime Stories Little Bear Want to Share Dian Kristiani’s Creation

Bedtime stories Little Bear Want to Share by Dian Kristiani is a fable that tells the story of a Little Bear who helps Mother Deer because her child is starving. The purpose of this study is to find, identify, and analyze the moral values ​​in the bedtime stories Little Bear Want to Share by Dian Kristiani. The research was carried out by library research by examining the literature in the form of a bedtime Little Bear Want to Share by Dian Kristiani. Data collection techniques are carried out using documentation through reading and taking notes relating to moral values. Data were analyzed by reading, taking notes, classifying, analyzing and concluding. The results of this study are the moral values ​​contained in the bedtime stories by Dian Kristiani, among others: a) Social care, first, Aunt Bear's social concern for the Little Bear, second, Little Bear's social concern for Mother Deer, third, Little Bear's social concern to Aunt Bear, b) Saying thanks, firstly, Little Bear thanks Aunt Bear, second, Aunt Bear thanks to Little Bear, thirdly, Mother Deer thanks Little Bear and c) Empathy, Empathy Little Bear to Mother Deer.

The Liberation of Fairy-Tale Heroinesin James Finn Garner’sPolitically Correct Bedtime Stories

AbstractThis paper reexamines the way in which traditional fairy tales depict famous heroines (Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Snow White) by comparing them to their “liberated” versions from James Finn Garner’sPolitically Correct Bedtime Stories. We argue that the greatest value of the modern adaptations of classic fairy tales lies in their enabling us to see the world as a child might, introducing at the same time the grown-up theme of the liberation of women and breaking the pattern of portraying easily led, ineffectual, and vulnerable female characters in children’s literature.

Set Sail for Pancakes! by Tim Kleyn

Reviewed by: Set Sail for Pancakes! by Tim Kleyn Sarah Sahn Kleyn, Tim Set Sail for Pancakes!; written and illus. by Tim Kleyn. Viking, 2022 [40p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780593404294 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780593404300 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R 3-6 yrs Margot and Grandpa's tummies are both grumbly for pancakes, but there's no milk or eggs in the fridge, and the flour sack is empty. They live on an island, so they must pack up the Beluga Blue and set sail for pancakes—first to Chicken Island for eggs, then to Cow Island for milk, and finally to Flour Mill Island, where they arrive just as the sky is getting as grumbly as their tummies. Grandpa battens down the hatches while Margot gets the flour, and they drop anchor to wait out the storm. When the weather clears, they find themselves at Banana Tree Island, giving them a perfect addition to their pancake recipe. Kleyn's text and digital illustrations make for a gentle, silly romp that showcases the love between grandfather and granddaughter. Margot and Grandpa are huggably soft figures in a saturated cartoon landscape, with dark brown skin and simply-drawn features that remain cheery throughout the island-hopping grocery run and scary storm. Make this a bedtime story or a Saturday morning read-aloud—either way, be prepared to satisfy grumbly tummies with banana pancakes for breakfast. Fortunately, Margot and Grandpa's recipe is included at the end. Copyright © 2022 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois