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The Classic fairytale of Cinderella: a young girl, mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters, who finds out that dreams really can come true.

The Classic Fairytale Story of Snow White with a Modern Twist: Who is the “fair”est of them all? Snow White of course!

A Bedtime Story of Honesty, Courage and Truth.  If Pinocchio is to become a Real boy he needs to learn how to be honest, brave and true.

A Grimm’s Brother Tale: A miller tells a tale that his daughter can turn straw into gold. A strange little man is willing to help…for a price. Guess his name and he will be gone…but what is his name?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids. Goldilocks finds the three bears cottage in the woods. Should she make herself comfortable?

Hansel and Gretel Bedtime Stories for Kids. When Hansel and Gretel go in search of food, they find a gingerbread house. But who is inside?

A Story of Friendship, Love and Courage. Rapunzel’s Story ~ A Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. An evil witch has trapped Rapunzel in a tower. Can her long hair or love save her?

A Story of Courage, Justice and Self-Awareness.  Merlin the Magician places a magic sword in a stone…whomever can pull it out is the rightful king.

A Bedtime Story of Acceptance and Self-Awareness. A Mama Duck is proud when her six ducklings hatch from their eggs. But one duckling does not look like the others? Is he truly an Ugly Duckling?

The classic Brother’s Grimm fairytale that sparked the Disney adaptation.

A Story of Courage, Learning and Love. The Classic fairy tale: The Little Mermaid falls in love with a prince on shore and she makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. But without her voice, how can the prince fall in love with her?

This Classic Folktale is adapted from the original story of “Aladdin” from The Arabian Nights. Aladdin, the Genie and the Magic Lamp work to impress the princess who wishes to be a commoner.

A Story of Courage, Kindness to Animals and Learning.  The Classic Tale of a male deer, Bambi, his mother and his adventures learning in the woods.

A Story of Charity, Compassion and Justice, from England. Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest thrown by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Will he realize its a trap before it is too late? One of the many Tales of Robin Hood.

This is the Legend Tale of Maui the Demi-God from Moana. It is part of our Classic Bedtime Stories for Kids Collection. It has been adapted from the Tales of Maui as well as Disney’s version of Moana.

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. A toy rabbit learns that through a child’s love it can become real.

The Classic Tale of the Snow Queen: Gerda and Kai struggle to fight the Snow Queen and find the balance between Good and Evil.

The Classic Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora has been cursed by Maleficent. When she  pricks herself on a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday, she is put into a deep sleep for 100 years. Who can save her?

Bedtime Story for Kids: The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Story. Della and Jim wish to give each other the perfect Christmas present, but how will they come up with the money?

A Bedtime Story of Friendship, Courage and Acceptance. . The story tells of the time Pocahontas saved the life of settler John Smith from her father, Powhatan.

A Cinderella Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

The Classic fairytale of Cinderella: a young girl, mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters, who finds out that dreams really can come true.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

The Classic Fairytale Story of Snow White with a Modern Twist: Who is the “fair”est of them all? Snow White of course!

Pinocchio Story ~ Fairy Tale Bedtime Stories in English for Kids

A Bedtime Story of Honesty, Courage and Truth.  If Pinocchio is to become a Real boy he needs to learn how to be honest, brave and true.

Beauty and the Beast Classic Tale ~ Fairy Tale Stories for Kids

The classic fairy tale of a beautiful woman and the monstrous beast.

Rumpelstiltskin ~ A Fairy Tale Bedtime Story for Kids

A Grimm’s Brother Tale: A miller tells a tale that his daughter can turn straw into gold. A strange little man is willing to help…for a price. Guess his name and he will be gone…but what is his name?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids. Goldilocks finds the three bears cottage in the woods. Should she make herself comfortable?

Hansel and Gretel ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

Hansel and Gretel Bedtime Stories for Kids. When Hansel and Gretel go in search of food, they find a gingerbread house. But who is inside?

Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm ~ Bedtime Stories

A Story of Friendship, Love and Courage. Rapunzel’s Story ~ A Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. An evil witch has trapped Rapunzel in a tower. Can her long hair or love save her?

The Sword in the Stone: a King Arthur Legend of the Sword Story

A Story of Courage, Justice and Self-Awareness.  Merlin the Magician places a magic sword in a stone…whomever can pull it out is the rightful king.

The Ugly Duckling Story ~ Fairy Tale Story for Kids in English

A Bedtime Story of Acceptance and Self-Awareness. A Mama Duck is proud when her six ducklings hatch from their eggs. But one duckling does not look like the others? Is he truly an Ugly Duckling?

The Frog Prince: The Story of the Princess and the Frog ~ Bedtime Stories

The classic Brother’s Grimm fairytale that sparked the Disney adaptation.

The Little Mermaid Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids in English

A Story of Courage, Learning and Love. The Classic fairy tale: The Little Mermaid falls in love with a prince on shore and she makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. But without her voice, how can the prince fall in love with her?

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from The Arabian Nights ~ Bedtime Stories

This Classic Folktale is adapted from the original story of “Aladdin” from The Arabian Nights. Aladdin, the Genie and the Magic Lamp work to impress the princess who wishes to be a commoner.

Bambi Story: A Life in the Woods ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids in English

A Story of Courage, Kindness to Animals and Learning.  The Classic Tale of a male deer, Bambi, his mother and his adventures learning in the woods.

Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow Story ~ Legend Stories for Kids

A Story of Charity, Compassion and Justice, from England. Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest thrown by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Will he realize its a trap before it is too late? One of the many Tales of Robin Hood.

Maui from Moana: Tales of the Demi-God ~ Legend Stories for Kids

This is the Legend Tale of Maui the Demi-God from Moana. It is part of our Classic Bedtime Stories for Kids Collection. It has been adapted from the Tales of Maui as well as Disney’s version of Moana.

The Velveteen Rabbit Story ~ Bedtime English Story for Kids

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. A toy rabbit learns that through a child’s love it can become real.

The Snow Queen Fairy Tale Story ~Bedtime Story for Kids

The Classic Tale of the Snow Queen: Gerda and Kai struggle to fight the Snow Queen and find the balance between Good and Evil.

Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tale Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

The Classic Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora has been cursed by Maleficent. When she  pricks herself on a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday, she is put into a deep sleep for 100 years. Who can save her?

The Gift of the Magi Story ~ A Holiday Story for Kids

Bedtime Story for Kids: The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Story. Della and Jim wish to give each other the perfect Christmas present, but how will they come up with the money?

Pocahontas and John Smith Story ~ Folktales Stories for Kids

A Bedtime Story of Friendship, Courage and Acceptance. . The story tells of the time Pocahontas saved the life of settler John Smith from her father, Powhatan.

The Emperor’s New Clothes Story ~ Bedtime Stories

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. The Emperor is fooled into believing he is wearing magic clothes which can’t be “seen”.

Mulan Story ~ Tale of Hua Mulan Bedtime Stories | English Story for Kids

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. Based on the “Ballad of Mulan” and Disney’s Mulan, this is a legend tale about a girl who goes in disguise as a boy and joins the army in her brother’s place.

Short Stories for Kids ~ Folk tales, Fairy Tales, Riddles, Legends, Poems

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

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This is the fairy tale story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears with a modern twist. It is brought to you by Stories to Grow by. Check out our other great stories! 

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Once upon a time a girl named Goldilocks lived in a house at the edge of the woods. In those days curls of hair were called "locks."  She was "Goldilocks" because golden hair ran down her head and shoulders.   

One morning Goldilocks was out for a walk when she came across a beautiful bird.  She followed that bird right into the woods, where her mother had said many times she must never go.  But Goldilocks didn’t think of that.

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Deeper and deeper into the woods she went. But where was the bird?  It was nowhere to be seen.  Goldilocks looked around.  That's when she knew she was lost.  

But a house was not far away.  “I wonder who lives there,” she thought, "so deep into the woods."  She went up and knocked on the door.   No answer.  She knocked again.  Still no answer.  Goldilocks knocked a third time and the door opened. But no one was behind the door.  

“Well, the door is already open,” said the girl. “So I may as well go in.”

Goldilocks smelled a wonderful smell, and soon knew why. On the table were three steaming bowls of oatmeal.  All of a sudden she realized how very hungry she was.

What Goldilocks did not know, however, is that three bears lived in this house.  In fact, that very morning the three bears had sat down to their bowls of oatmeal but the cereal was too hot.  So they had decided to take a short walk.  They said to each other, "By the time we return home our oatmeal will be perfect."

Gazing at the steaming bowls of oatmeal, Goldilocks thought, “I'm sure whoever lives here won’t mind if I take just one sip.” She sat at the first chair and took a sip.  “Ah!” she said, “it is too hot.”

She moved to the next bowl and took a sip.  “Ah!” she said, “it is too cold. ”

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She moved to the third bowl and took a sip.  “It is just right!” And before she knew it, the oatmeal was all gone.  

Goldilocks rubbed her tummy.  “I'm full! I must find somewhere to sit that's more comfortable.”  

She went to the living room.  Three chairs were lined up in a row – one big chair, one medium-sized chair, and a wee little chair.

“I'm sure whoever lives here will not mind if I sit on just one chair,” said Goldilocks. She sat on the big chair, but it was too hard. 

“The next chair looks good,” said Goldilocks.  She moved to the medium-sized chair, but it was too soft.

“The wee little chair looks better,” said the girl.  She sat on the little chair and it was just right!  But when Goldilocks leaned back a bit, the chair broke into a dozen pieces.  She plopped right on the floor.

“Oh, no!” Goldilocks wailed. Then she yawned.   There must be somewhere she could lie down for a short nap.

The girl saw a ladder and climbed it to an attic.  In a row, three beds were lined up – one big bed, one medium-sized bed, and a wee little bed.  

“I'm sure whoever lives here won’t mind if I lay down for just a short nap,” she said.  She laid down on the big bed but it was too hard.  She laid down on the medium-sized bed but it was too soft.  The girl laid down on the wee little bed, and it was just right!  As her head hit the pillow, Goldilocks was fast asleep.

Just then, the three bears came home from their walk.  "Oh, my!" said Mama Bear. “Did either of you leave the front door open?” 

“Not I,” said Papa Bear. 

"Not I," said Little Bear.

Slowly the three bears stepped inside and looked around.    

“Most odd!” said Papa Bear, seeing his spoon in his bowl.  “Someone has been eating my oatmeal!”

“Most odd indeed!” said Mama Bear, also seeing her spoon in her bowl.   “Someone has been eating my oatmeal!”

“This is the most odd of all!” said Little Bear.  “Someone has been eating my oatmeal and they ate it all up!”

The three bears were very surprised, as you can imagine.  With care, they stepped into their living room.

“Do you think someone was sitting in my chair?” said Papa Bear.

“I know someone was sitting in my chair,” said Mama Bear, “because I can see the seat cushion is pushed down.”

“And I know someone was sitting in my chair!” said Little Bear. “Because it’s all broken!”

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The three bears were even more surprised at that!  They climbed the ladder to their attic.  

“Someone has been sleeping on my bed,” said Papa Bear, who could see that his blankets were moved.

“Someone has been sleeping on my bed, too,” said Mama Bear, who could also see that her blankets were moved.

“Someone has been sleeping on my bed,” said Little Bear. “And look - she is still there!”

Goldilocks bolted awake.  Three bears were looming over her, and they did not look happy.

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“Oh my!” said Goldilocks, jumping out of bed.  As quick as she could, she climbed down the ladder and ran out the front door.

Little Bear chased after her.  "Wait, please!"

Goldilocks stopped and turned around. 

"Tell me," said Little Bear, “Why did you come inside our house?”

“I guess I didn’t think–,“ said Goldilocks. 

“And why did you eat my oatmeal?” said Little Bear.

“Well I guess I didn’t think–,“ said Goldilocks.

“And why did you break my chair and sleep in my bed?” said Little Bear.

“Well I guess I didn’t think about that, either,” said Goldilocks.

They were silent.

Goldilocks said, “I suppose I could have waited outside your door.”

“We were coming right home,” said Mama Bear.   "We might have invited you in if we knew you were hungry."

“I’m sorry about the chair,” said Goldilocks.  “I guess you saw it broke.”

"Yep," said Mama Bear with a frown.

“I’m good at fixing things,” said Goldilocks, “If you have glue.”

“Of course we have glue!” said Papa Bear. “What kind of bears do you think we are?”

“I will make it up to you!” said Goldilocks. 

“Come on in then, dear,” said Mama Bear. 

“We'll start over,” said Papa Bear with a nod.

“Come in, come in!” said Little Bear, jumping up and down.  

With smiles, they skipped together inside the Bear’s house.

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From the history of infant feeding in pre-revolutionary Russia

WORLDWIDE BREASTFEEDING WEEK

(August 1-7, 2020)

DAILY BREAD FOR MOTHER AND CHILD

Peasant women believed that colostrum was extremely harmful to the child and in the first days they did not put the child to the breast, but decant the colostrum on the ground. If a newborn screamed, they gave him a pacifier. A nipple in peasant life is a soft cloth in which a chewed pretzel was wrapped (in rich houses), just sweet porridge or rye bread (in poor houses). This cloth was given to suck on a newly born baby. Naturally, in the European cultural tradition, which was supported by official medicine, there was an irreconcilable struggle with the pacifier.

Soviet doctors also continued their struggle with the pacifier. If at the end of X I I of the 10th century the refusal of nipples is argued by the fact that this is a bad habit and that the nipple contains food that the newborn cannot digest, then at the beginning of the 20th century this set of arguments against nipples is added another is a nipple-carrier of microbes that kill all living things.

In the 1920s, special editions appeared, addressed to rural activists who were supposed to teach mothers and their helpers - teenage girls. These manuals contained medical recommendations written in a simple, accessible language for peasant women and formulated in the form of questions and answers. Here is how such a manual explains the harm of a pacifier with chewed bread:

Question: "Is it possible to give a nipple with chewed bread to an infant?".

Answer: "No."

Question: Why?

Answer: “Because the child's stomach cannot yet digest chewed bread, and the child will only get sick. In addition, thanks to the nipple, the child often becomes infected with various diseases.

Question: "Where does the infection get into the nipple?".

Answer: “An infection is a small living being, so small that you cannot even see it with the eye, but only with the help of magnifying glasses. Microbes are everywhere - on the floor, and in the air, on the hands, there are especially a lot of them where it's dirty. When a nipple falls on the floor or is handled with unwashed hands, germs stick to it. This pacifier, along with microbes, is put into the child’s mouth, and then because of this, his mouth blooms or his tummy hurts, or he gets sick with something.

If a peasant woman began to work on the third day after giving birth, then a wealthy woman was ordered to be at rest for several days. Here is what the daily routine of such a woman should have looked like in terms of recommendations from a medical brochure.

She had to stay in bed for nine days. In this case, the first two days it was recommended to lie on your back. Do not sit under any circumstances. It was necessary to monitor the cleanliness of bed linen. Dirty diapers were ordered to be removed from the room where the woman in labor lies, because they spoil the air. Generally speaking, monitoring the purity of the air, from the point of view of medical benefits, is the main business of a person who takes care of his health.

A woman who has given birth is prescribed complete rest, both physical and spiritual. It was impossible to let anyone, except for those closest to her, and she was strictly forbidden to do housework or mental work.

A woman who gave birth could leave the house only after a month. At least that's what the doctors told her.

When asked what was the difference between what a peasant woman could do and did after giving birth, and what order was prescribed for a woman belonging to other strata of society, there was an answer. In addition to the rest regime, the woman who gave birth was prescribed a diet: milk, meat broth - preferably with egg yolk, tea or coffee with milk. Coffee, in fact, is a very common drink, there were no restrictions on it either for nursing women or for children. In addition to protein foods, a woman who had just given birth was recommended to eat white bread, and introduce the rest of the food gradually. This is not at all like what women eat today after giving birth. These are the foods they try to eliminate from their diet.

The question of whether a peasant woman adhered to any diet after childbirth was not raised at all. In any case, those ethnographic materials that are devoted to this topic do not contain any information that she should eat differently.

It is only known that after childbirth, women were given kvass with oatmeal or oats, this practice was widespread. Neighbors brought pies to the woman who had given birth, and, quite surprisingly, after giving birth, she was given vodka to drink. Apparently, this was common practice.

A peasant woman breastfed her child for up to one and a half to two years. It was usually believed that at least three fasts needed to be fed, and under the fasts they meant only the Christmas and Great Lent. Thus, it turned out for one and a half years, and for almost two.

The age at which a peasant baby began to be fed was different in different parts of the Russian Empire. When we read that a mother breastfeeds a child up to one and a half to two years old, this does not mean that a peasant baby feeds exclusively on mother's milk until one and a half to two years old. Actually, nothing of the sort. In some provinces, they began to feed the child at two or three weeks, in others at five or six weeks, and in the third at two months. In any case, feeding began very early. Cow's milk or liquid porridge boiled in milk was given as complementary foods. The porridge was cooked either from wheat flour or from ground millet. And this milk porridge was the main food for a child up to two years. He ate porridge, milk and bread, and that's practically all he ate.

I must say that early complementary feeding was explained not by ideological, but exclusively by practical considerations. Mother had to work. Women's hands were needed in the household, because caring for livestock, cooking, baking bread are women's duties, men did not do this, not to mention the fact that if a child was born in the summer, then his prospects for breastfeeding were very vague. Even, frankly, he had no prospects that his mother would feed him with milk.

A woman went to harvest and left her child with a nanny who fed him cow's milk and porridge like an artificial one.

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WHY THEY WERE HIRED AND HOW THEY “RE-EDUCATED” A NURDER

Among the Europeanized part of the population - the nobles and wealthy townspeople - the issue of breastfeeding a child was decided in a completely different way. Women rarely fed their children on their own. Usually they resorted to the services of a wet nurse. Moreover, the practice here runs counter to the declarations of popular medical brochures. Every pamphlet on infant care unanimously states that the best thing a mother can do for her baby is to breastfeed him. And many pages of popular medical literature are devoted to this topic. The authors appeal to naturalness, to the idea of ​​the physical unity of mother and child. They write that feeding can be difficult and hard, but this is consistent with the laws of nature. At the same time, just a few pages later, the same authors give recommendations on choosing a wet nurse. Such a transition from one to another is not unusual, since the practice of taking a wet nurse into the house was widespread and widespread, it was necessary to explain how to choose it correctly.

Why did a woman, knowing about the benefits of mother's milk, almost always prefer to hire a wet nurse? Because she felt weak and exhausted by pregnancy and childbirth. The idea that a woman is weak and unadapted to life, just as an idea, was quite common in society. Many educated and wealthy women, except only the most heroic, felt weak, helpless and unable to feed their child on their own. And this is not connected with the desire to keep a good figure or go to visit with her husband¸ no - this is precisely the idea of ​​helplessness. It is difficult to assume that most of the women of the nobility were not physically developed and could not feed their child.

With this consideration of the issue, the nurse was recognized as the only possible way out of the current situation. At the same time, the authors of medical brochures reflect on the nature of the “institution” of wet nurses and, naturally, speak unflatteringly about this “institution”, because a woman, when she hires herself as a wet nurse, practically sells her body.

Alexey Venetsianov. "Nurse with a child", 1830

It must be said that many brochures were translated from European languages, that is, they reflected precisely European practice and a European view of things.

In Russia, a woman without a child was taken into the house, who, leaving her baby in an orphanage or sending him to relatives in the village, went to work in a rich house, where she offered herself as a breadwinner.

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