: Re: Where can I find resources for bedtime story plots? For past ten months, my wife and I have been telling bedtime stories of our own making to our older daughter (who recently turned 4). We

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Yes, collections of traditional folk and fairy tales from around the world. Although there is a limited number of well-known stories that are retold again and again in the modernized world, they represent just a small cross-section of the endless number of enchanting, psychologically rich stories, from every culture and nation, found in the folk tradition.

Not only can you tell these stories just as written, they also lend themselves well to variation and adaption, to being rewritten and remixed, not just for children but for adults. I always recommend anyone who has trouble with plot and story structure to read more fairy tales.

One additional bonus is that fairy tales are believed by some researchers to be psychologically beneficial, and another is that stories from other cultures can teach a lot about how other people see the world. With that said, however, you may wish to be alert to hidden messages under the surface of stories that you might not agree with. For example, a number of the otherwise enchanting stories from the 1,001 Arabian Nights have a disturbing undercurrent of misogyny.

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