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