I Go to Bed. Bedtime Stories for the very young, and not only for them

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Michael Turunovsky. I Go to Bed. Bedtime Stories for the very young, and not only for them

I Go to Bed (Bedtime Stories for the very young, and not only for them)

To Parents from the Author

A Girl and a Cot

The Magic Cloud

In the Kingdom of Dreams

Lullaby

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Dear parents, tell me do you remember your child fears? They are Brownie under the bed or behind the cupboard, “babayka” in the shed or a dark room of your apartment.

The world of a young child is so huge and so strange and it is full of different kinds of fears. We think that many of them stay in this wonderful and romantic world of childhood forever. Having become adult we start recollect our child fears with humor and irony. We don’t feel close mutual relations between them and our vital psychological problems that have unfortunately appeared in our grown up life. Most psychological complex, different kinds of nervous disorders originate from the unsolved child problems. Many of which are connected especially with the presence of their child fears. The invincible fears of a child move into his adult life and correct the actions of a mature man subconsciously.

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“Oh, I can’t stand it any more! – blurted the cot out and stooping a little bit it threw the negligent mistress down onto the floor.

“It’s bad! It’s a bad cot! – screamed the girl, lying on the floor.” Sell it immediately!” Next day the cot was returned to the store. Just yesterday it was so nice and cheerful! But now it stood lonely in the corner of the trade hall, tarnished and disappointed. And if only beds could cry, it would have surely burst into tears as it had been greatly offended. But suddenly somebody stroked her very tenderly and gently. The cot felt the crumpled mattress slowly smoothed out and soon shone again with its former beauty.

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