http://www.kastelinternational.com/home-page/bedtime-rituals/ Just another WordPress site Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:56:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.kastelinternational.com/home-page/bedtime-rituals/#comment-153 Hans Pompen Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:13:00 +0000 http://www.kastelinternational.com/?p=1400#comment-153 when my girls were aged between 1 and 2, our favourite bedtime ritual was playing with a musical toy. The musical toy had two magenetic spinning dancers on it that you can take off and put back. When the music plays, they spin, ‘dance’. I would take them off, and then Sofia and Isabel would correct me and showed me that these dancers had to be on the dance floor. It’s was a fun game and it took coordination skills for them to place the magnetic dancers perfectly on the musical toy. I still cherish the moments, lying on the floor with the girls and listening to the music and seeing them chase the dancers which i hid or just displaced.   What they love now most is listening to COCO, a digital music player, playing Giraffe’s Can’t Dance, by Giles Andreae. It’s wonderful story of a Giraffe who made fun off at the annual animal dance because he looks silly when he dances. We first all lie together and once the annual dance in the story starts, the girls get up and perform all the dances (ChaCha, Tango, Scottish Reel, Waltz, etc) that the animals do. We then talk about the moral of the story (of course there's a happy ending) and afterwards, they happily go to bed. It’s really great. Hans, father of two girls. when my girls were aged between 1 and 2, our favourite bedtime ritual was playing with a musical toy. The musical toy had two magenetic spinning dancers on it that you can
take off and put back. When the music plays, they spin, ‘dance’. I would take
them off, and then Sofia and Isabel would correct me and showed me that these
dancers had to be on the dance floor. It’s was a fun game and it took
coordination skills for them to place the magnetic dancers perfectly on the
musical toy. I still cherish the moments, lying on the floor with the girls and
listening to the music and seeing them chase the dancers which i hid or just
displaced.
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What they love now most is listening to COCO, a digital music player, playing
Giraffe’s Can’t Dance, by Giles Andreae. It’s wonderful story of a Giraffe who made fun off at the annual animal dance because he looks silly when he dances.
We first all lie together and once the annual dance in the story starts, the
girls get up and perform all the dances (ChaCha, Tango, Scottish Reel, Waltz,
etc) that the animals do. We then talk about the moral of the story (of course there’s a happy ending) and afterwards, they happily go to bed. It’s really great. Hans, father of two girls.

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