As parents, we all know that forming regular sleep habits is of great significance to children’s growth and health.
In fact, good sleep is indeed a necessary condition for children’s physical and neurological development.
However, it seems that all children in the world do not like sleeping!
Do you have the same experience:
It’s bedtime, The child was still running around the house with great energy. Not holding the toy and refusing to let it go, Is pulling you to play games… very not easy to coax and cheat to brush your teeth, change into pajamas, Lying down on the cot, This [little monster] said for a while that he wanted to listen to the story, shouted for water, climbed out of bed and went to the toilet… the child always seemed to come up with various reasons to delay sleep. As a parent, you yawned and quickly coaxed yourself to sleep. The little people around you still kept their eyes open and fought with you with great interest…
How to break at such times?
Don’t worry, there is one [artifact] that can help you. This [artifact] is-picture book!
Finding the right picture book, [prescribing the right medicine], not saying [medicine to cure the disease], is also of great help to novice parents to help their babies establish good living habits.
In this issue, we will talk about these [good night picture books].
Picture Book Recommendation
Good night, there are too many picture books! I can’t count all my fingers and toes.
There are also many ready-made book lists on the Internet for reference. This article only lists a few relatively classic books for your reference.
1. < < Good night! Moon > >
Style: Warm
This is the representative work of American gifted picture writer Margaret Whitesbrown. She also has a best-selling masterpiece, “The Runaway Rabbit”.
She knows the children’s psychological world very well, can pay attention to what they pay attention to from the perspective of children, and can understand the children’s emotions, so her works have been loved by generations of children.
When it’s time to sleep, the child still refuses to sleep. What should I do?
You can let him learn from the little rabbit in the book and say good night to everything he sees-perhaps life needs a little ritual sometimes?
2. < < Good night, gorilla > >
Style: Warm
This is a picture book with few words, simple plot and full of children’s interest, but it makes children never tire of reading it.
Late at night, the zoo keeper who had been tired all day dragged his tired body to say goodbye to the animals one by one and went home, but gorillas, elephants, lions and giraffes all lined up and followed the keeper to his house…
A warm and interesting story, let the baby know many animals, in the lengthy farewell, drowsiness came…
3. < < Go to sleep, little monster > >
Style: Humor
In this book, children who don’t want to sleep appear as little crocodiles. In order not to sleep, they fight with their father in all kinds of wits and courage-children must have a lot of resonance when they see these pictures.
Interestingly, at the end of the story, the little crocodile turned back into a child, while the father turned into a big crocodile!
This is a bedtime picture book that adults and children will enjoy. It is also very helpful to guide children to establish good sleep habits.
4. < < Sleeping World Champion > >
Style: Catchy
We may not know Sean Taylor, the author of this book, but we must know Jimmy, the author of this picture book.
In the general good night picture book, parents coax their children to sleep. In this book, Della, the main character of the story, becomes a role like a mother-she wants to coax her three doll partners to sleep.
However, cherry pig, thunderbolt mouse and bean frog are not willing to sleep. What can Della do to make them sleep obediently?
Open up this fantastic story. The beautiful nursery rhymes make children fall asleep sweetly in their unconstrained imagination.
5. < < Guess how much I love you > >
Style: Lyric
One night, when it was time to sleep, the little chestnut rabbit didn’t want to sleep. He pestered the rabbit’s father to compete with who loved whom more. Dad couldn’t help it. Let’s compare it.
As a result, the lively little chestnut rabbit tried his best to prove how much love he had. But no matter how he came up with what, his father always beat him.
By comparison, the little chestnut rabbit fell asleep… … …
As for how to choose picture books for children, there are [four] principles. The so-called [four] principles are [master, grand prize, big sale, big love]. < < guess how much I love you > > at least satisfy [big sale] (up to now, the global sales volume has exceeded 23 million copies) and [big love] (this is a representative picture book with love as the theme). It belongs to the classic of the classics.
How do you read picture books?
Since the birth of the baby, the family has hoarded a lot of picture books one after another, but if you buy picture books, you can’t just put them on the bookshelf to accumulate dust.
If you want your child to read and learn, it is impossible to throw the book in front of your child and let him read it himself.
Picture books are used for [parent-child reading]. The correct way to open picture books is for parents to watch them with their children and tell them the stories in the picture books.
Today, let me tell you how to read the two picture books.
If you have this book at home, Good Night, Moon,
This picture book has few words, bright colors and strong contrast.
At the beginning of the story is a big green room. The little rabbit is lying in bed ready to go to bed. The first few pages describe the contents of the room. Most of the books at the back are saying good night to all kinds of contents.
If you read this picture book with your child before going to bed, you can learn what it looks like and say good night to your child and all kinds of things at home.
Good night, stool;
Good night, chair;
Good night, desk lamp;
Good night, cup;
Good night, picture on the wall;
Good night, rabbit doll in her arms;
Good night, fluttering curtains;
Good night, the moon outside the window…
You can go through this process every day before going to bed. First, children are naturally fond of repeating it. Secondly, don’t ignore the importance of ritual.
Give the child a sense of ceremony to fall asleep. When saying good night one by one with the family items forms a ceremony, it becomes a natural thing for the child to fall asleep at the same time.
If you have this book in your home, guess how much I love you
This picture book tells the story of the little chestnut rabbit pulling his father more than who loves whom before going to bed.
During the competition, the two rabbits had many body movements: open arms, hands in the air, handstand, jumping…
You can let the child play role-playing and let the child play the rabbit. Anyway, the child doesn’t want to sleep, so just accompany him to dance and jump in bed for a while.
When the child’s energy was almost exhausted, our story also changed, just like a tune from high-pitched and cheerful to a warm and lyrical melody-the little rabbit was sleepy. He rubbed his eyes and said, “I love you all the way to the moon.” Then, the little rabbit fell asleep.
The big rabbit put the little rabbit on the bed, kissed him and said, “I love you to the moon and come back here again.”
All right, parents kiss your [bunny], help him cover the quilt and let him sleep like a bunny!