Now that you’ve mentioned this, I realize that I haven’t done this in more than a decade, but I certainly used to be good at the growl of a bear or any of the big cats. It was especially useful when my children were of the age when they asked for bedtime stories and I would act out all the characters.
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Thank you, that’s very nice of you!
I fondly remember those days when they used to ask for me to tell them stories, stories that I would make up on the fly. I can’t remember ever having read them the traditional fairy tales or other children’s stories, I always used my vivid imagination to create worlds and adventures and plots that enthralled them. Every story was a cliffhanger that I’d pick up the next night, and I’d engage my kids in helping to move it along by asking them questions about what they thought might happen next or what a character should or shouldn’t do, describing a scene or an imaginary animal, etc. It really helped fuel their own imaginations too, and that, along with teaching them to read at young ages, helped them to be very intelligent, intuitive, and studious, well beyond their years.
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The second one doesn’t count.
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