Parenting Tip: Spice Up Child Stories by Using Sound
Copyright 2006 Paul Arinaga
This article presents a parenting tip for using sound, and especially onomatopoeia, with child stories. The benefits are:
1. they make child stories more interesting
2. stories become more interactive
3. making sounds is fun!
Why Use Sound?
As recently as a few centuries ago, stories were primarily oral/aural; they were spoken, not read.
Even today, good storytelling in writing is pretty much the same as good storytelling verbally. Unlike adult