“A Kiss And To Bed!” », To Encourage Good Habits From Childhood – Being Parents
Habits are essential in people’s lives. To a greater or lesser extent, we all have a set of routines that we perform on a daily or almost daily basis. Getting up, having lunch, going to work or school, having dinner and going to sleep are some of them.
We carry out these actions in a mechanical way, because we have acquired these habits since childhood. This is precisely the point we want to deal with today: the acquisition of habits in this stage.
Encourage habits during childhood
Even if children are not aware of the importance of habits, we must show them and teach them from the start. Going to the bathroom, going to bed or washing your hands and teeth are some of them.
The most important habits or routines should be learned as early as possible, including bedtime. It is essential that children have the same or similar bedtime and waking times every day, without variations. Rest is essential: not only for the long-term growth and development of the child, but also to have energy throughout the day.
On many occasions, children are reluctant to go to bed, and this task is exhausting for parents. Other times, they don’t want to sleep alone for fear of the dark, for example.
To make this task much easier, both for parents and for children, today we will give you a tool that will help the youngest when it comes to acquiring habits: children’s books. We are going to show you a different children’s book that will help build habits. In this book, it is the children who interact with the story.
A kiss and to bed!
Here is a book recommended for children from two years old with which, in a fun way, they will acquire one of the most important habits: bedtime. Written by one of the most famous children’s book authors, Patricia Geis, this book is part of the Doudous collection , specializing for toddlers.
The protagonists of the story are animals, characters that the little ones in the house will love. More precisely, a rabbit, a little pig, a bear and a cat whose respective names are Lapin, Cochonou, Petits Ours and Miaou.
What differentiates this book from other children’s books to go to sleep is that these characters we are talking about are semi-cut , so the little ones will be able to peel them off and interact with them in the different pages of the book.
In addition to the figures, other everyday items and essential for everyday life such as a sponge, comb or toothbrush can also allow toddlers to play.
The structure of the book to encourage habits
Being a book intended for the little ones in the house, its structure is very simple. On each page, children can place the characters and objects in the pockets included in the book. They have the shape of a bed, a table and other elements. To be used according to the habit you want to acquire!
Each of the characters has a different preference for when to go to sleep. One likes to have a tale read to him, the other wants to drink a glass of water and so on, with the four characters in the tale. However, when faced with these preferences, everyone performs the same actions: washing their teeth and hands.
Another remarkable thing about this book is that the characters are usable for both sides. On the one hand they are awake and on the other they are sleeping , because with the story we aim to encourage the habit of going to bed.
In each double page we find four lines of text. Through play and reading, children will have to discover the habits of each character before bedtime and help them.
A book that will become a children’s favorite
Playbooks are children’s favorites for the possibilities for interaction that their pages offer. The publisher Combel was aware of the importance of acquiring habits in toddlers, and through their favorite characters, they wanted to create this fantastic collection.
Once you finish the book, it has a flap to store the characters. We can therefore start the story again the following night without losing a single detail.
