To think bedtime stories should not be emotional?!

[Cadela]

This is lighthearted!

Just read Dd the Paper Dolls and got slightly choked up at the boy chopping them up, full on holding back sobs at the memories bit with granny 😭 Trying to read a bedtime story with a massive lump in your throat is a nightmare!

The other one that does it to me is ‘The Girls’ when they all come back to the tree all grown up.

In my defence I’ve been an easy crier since pregnancy and happy to show Dd all emotions but sobbing during bedtime isn’t what I planned 😂

Is there a bedtime book that does it for you too?

She was a lovely lady. A lady in the sense that Mary Berry is. She also said that Mogs bad thing was based on something one of her cats did. I met her at an exhibition of her work. She was also signing her books.

Didn’t know what everyone was on about re paper dolls. The line “turned into a mother”
broke me and I started to cry!

When he's taken away from his family? How is that not emotional. Stick men have feelings as well.,

But the whole book he’s being taken away - are you crying at each page? Or just when he goes for a jog? 😃

The bit that gets me in Snail and the Whale is when the little snail ‘gazed at it all and then said I feel so small’

It makes me tearful every time - though can’t quite remember the quote - kids are too old!

“It won’t feel like Christmas without their stick dad”

How is that not sad

Totally agree about paper dolls

Never grow up by Roald Dahl. As a parent with a disobedient & strong willed child, it makes me very emotional & reminds me it’s not a bad thing to have such a headstrong child.

I don’t know / it just didn’t get to me. Also you know he’s going to make it home! I can’t put it on a par with some of the other books here. Same with snail and a whale - I love both the books so much though.

Oh Stickman is so sad, it's bad enough watching the BBC version, never mind reading the book aloud:
"Stick mum is lonely, her children are sad, it won't feel like Christmas without their stick dad."

Im
going to have to gather some sticks in my garden and soul search with them

This is the bit that very much upset my kids, their dad walked out never to be seen again. I wouldn't have read them it had I known 😭

Wait! Please tell me why this is sad? I truly do not get this book and find it very weird and boring and don't get why it is so beloved. If I can see the emotion in it maybe it will move me 😁

However I do agree with stick man and the Alfie and Annie Rose books.

I also have a poetry anthology by A. A. Milne which I remember my dad reading to me and that makes me emotional as well. Like this one (with the picture!)
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/When_We_Were_Very_Young/Vespers

I got love you forever by Robert Munsch because I knew DH would find it creepy when the mum goes to her grown up son's house to rock him to sleep and I do find this hilarious but the bit at the end is very sad.

Oh I’m so glad someone else knows The Story of Holly and Ivy! I have a beautiful illustrated version I was given as a child which I read to the DC every Christmas in absolute bits every time.

Harry Styles reading 'in every house on every street' on cbeebies bedtime stories always has me welling up... I am quite a crier though and it's only got worse since being pregnant

Mousehole Cat always made me cry.

Goodbye Mog I never got as I read the description and realised I'd never be able to read it without sobbing a ridiculous amount - had quite a few cats over the years.

DS went through a phase of loving The Hobbit and wanting it read to him over and over again. Got a bit tearful at Thorin's death each time.

Not getting the peepo
tears either? The baby just like him
is the baby in the mirror?! Why is that emotional?

starting to think I’m emotionally stunted.

some of you need to order the “love you forever book”

@Laiste Choking thinking of Goodbye Mog, we purchased to help explain our 13 yo dogs passing to our ds. The woman in book shop warned us to read alone first. Thank fuck she did. Sobbing and broken by the end!

'I knew DH would find it creepy'

It is creepy! Don't get the love for this book at all!

I don’t love it - I hate it! I can’t get through the last third without crying. DS likes me to read it because it makes me so emotional which he somehow enjoys (maybe he enjoys a theatrical reading)

A great way for kids to learn that parents can get emotional over silly things too!!

The fairy doll always made me cry when I was little. I can't read it to my boys even though it has a happy ending. It's a naughty little sister book and the naughty little sister breaks the older sister's special doll by throwing it out of the window.

I do like Stick Man but the storyline has always made me slightly uncomfortable for that reason - I grew up with an absent father and I can imagine that I would have been affected by the story as a child. Especially how Father Christmas brings him back and everything is ok. Fine if your kids have never experienced loss, but potentially heartbreaking if they have. I’m so sorry your kids were upset by it.

In terms of crying at stories, I’m another one old enough to have been traumatised by The Little Match Girl! I’ve never read it to my kids but I definitely wouldn’t be able to do it without crying.

Goodbye Mog is a good book to help explain death to children