Story telling at Gramedia Matraman

Wow.... it's raining today but I have to wake up pretty early this morning to have a story telling program at Gramedia Matraman around 09.00.

Around 07.00, I went to Gramedia Matraman with Mr. Agustinus. He said he will pick me up at 07.30 but he came too early this morning, so we went at 07.00. Thank God I've done my make up too.

The idea of this story telling program is to give children a basic idea about reading a story with parents and to make children love books and of course love reading it!

Nowadays, parents are too busy with their own stuff, thus they don't even have time to read a bed time story for their children. Some of them also said that they don't like to read, so they don't want to read for their children. So, because money can buy anything (they said), they will buy an expensive reading machine for their children so that children can learn to read with that machine. Quite good, but still it is not the same if we're doing it with human instead of machine.

What would happen to children if parents keep doing this to them? I can not blame children if they don't like to read, because the reading habit is not on their list when they're growing up.

It is different in America or Japan. One of my friend from America said that reading a bed time story is a common thing in America, it is a time to be with children after having a tiring day and to have the bonding between them. Children can learn new vocabulary from books and learn to love reading books. In Japan, reading also become a habit in life, so you can find people reading books every where, even in the train, in bus, it looks like reading is your life.


Check out children's face when I'm doing the storytelling. They were so excited about the story and when I gave them questions at the end of the story, they can remember all things I said! Isn't it amazing??

So, I really hope that parents who read this will change their mind about reading a story to their children.

Want to have a bright child? Start from yourself, do what you need to do, NOW!