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Does anyone else use ChatGPT to help with their children's bedtime stories?

Our 9 yo has a long bedtime routine and I seem to have made a rod for my own back by leading her to expect:

(1) A chapter from the book she is reading by herself
(2) A freestyle story from my own imagination
(3) A "thought" story - ie. an interesting fact or observation from my day

The problem with (2) is that she is quite conservative in her literary tastes and whatever I come up with must include a rabbit, a horse, and a princess individually or in combination or other. This becomes quite restrictive after a number of weeks 🐇🐎👸🏽

Then, as though reading my thoughts, my AI personal assistant offered to help me in drafting new stories. After a pleasant morning pooling ideas and experimenting, I think I now have enough material to keep us going until she is 25! 😅
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Wiseoldman · M
Yes, yes, yes. Using ChatGPT as a tool for writing children's stories is a great, fun use of AI. I enjoy writing stories using AI for my grandchildren. I think the real beauty of using ChatGPT is that it's fast, easy, and unlimited in results you can get. It's also very handy that your story can be constructed using people places and things that the child already knows Such as their school their clubs their brothers their sisters or anything else in their life.

There are many YouTube examples using ChatGPT or some of the other AI tools using them to create children's stories. Just go to YouTube, type in the search bar, "creating children's storybooks using AI" will get you well on your way to becoming an author.


Here is an example of the story I wrote. Just for you. It took me about one and a half minutes to give the AI what I would like the story to be about. It ended up with about a five minute read, but it certainly wouldn't be any more work to increase the length of the story or make changes where needed.I am certainly no gymnastics expert, but I hope it makes a little bit of sense. So here goes.

Sometimes all you need is a little magic.

Molly turned eight just last week, and her birthday party had been everything she dreamed of balloons floating like colorful clouds, cake with extra sprinkles, and laughter echoing through the living room.

As the afternoon wound down and most of the wrapping paper lay in colorful heaps, only one gift remained. It was a plain silver box with no tag, no card, no clue who had left it among the pile. Molly's fingers tugged at the tape, her heart thumping with curiosity.

When she lifted the lid and pushed aside layers of tissue paper, there it was: a gymnastics leotard. Not just any leotard a brilliant, shimmering green one that caught the light like summer leaves after rain. The fabric looked stretchy and smooth, with tiny sparkles woven in that made it glow. Molly gasped, holding it up against herself. It was perfect.

"Who gave this to me?" she asked, looking around at the smiling faces of her family and friends. No one claimed it. Her mom just shrugged with a mysterious little smile, and her dad winked. The mystery only made the gift feel more special.

Molly had signed up for her first gymnastics class months ago, but as the day grew closer, a flutter of nerves danced in her stomach. What if she couldn't do a cartwheel? What if everyone else was better? Still, the thought of flipping and jumping and soaring made her grin despite the butterflies.

A few days after her birthday, the morning of her very first class arrived. Molly stood in her bedroom, the green leotard laid out on her bed like a jewel. She slipped it on carefully, tugging it over her shoulders and smoothing it down. The shiny fabric hugged her just right, bright and bold. She twirled in front of the mirror, watching the sparkles catch the light.

"Wow," she whispered. She felt braver already. Like maybe, she really could tumble and balance and roll.
Her mom helped tie her hair into a neat ponytail. "Ready, Gymnastic girl?"
Molly nodded, clutching her water bottle. The leotard felt like armor shiny, secret, wonderful armor.

At the gym, the air smelled faintly of mats and chalk. Other girls in colorful leotards chattered and stretched. Molly hesitated at the doorway, her toes curling against the cool floor.

Then the coach called everyone to the circle, and Molly stepped forward. The bright green caught a few glances some girls smiled, one even said, "Cool color!"
As they started with simple stretches and rolls, Molly felt the nerves begin to loosen. She reached for her toes, then tried a forward roll. It wasn't perfect, but she landed on her feet laughing. The green leotard moved with her, stretchy and light, like it was cheering her on.

By the end of class, her cheeks were pink and her ponytail a little messy, but her smile was huge. She had done bridges and jumped on the trampoline and even balanced on the beam for three whole seconds.

Walking out with her mom, Molly glanced down at the shimmering green.
"I think this leotard is magic," she said seriously.
Her mom laughed and squeezed her hand. "Or maybe it's just you, Molly. You're the magic part."

And as they stepped into the sunshine, Molly felt taller somehow—like she could flip over the moon if she wanted to. The mystery gift had turned out to be the best one of all.

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If you have any other questions, or maybe just a little help, please PM me.
And have fun.
MommyLucy · 36-40, F
YOUR NINE YEAR OLD IS PRECIOUS! 😍😍😍 I can totally understand her wanting a rabbit, horse or princess in every story in fact trust me I understand more than anyone as an autism trait I have is special interest and because gymnastics/hanging upside down is my one of two special interest I want all my stories to involve a character hanging upside down! 🙃🙃🙃 What's harder? 🤫🤫🤫 Thinking of stories involving rabbits, horses and princesses for your nine year old or thinking of stories including upside down scenes for me? 🙃🙃🙃 When I have asked you to write me stories in the past I always ask for an upside down scene for me and your precious special nine year old asks for rabbits, horses and princesses for her! 🥳🥳🥳 My other special interest (I have two) are Disney cartoons and as a kid every single night I would go to bed 90 minutes early and watch a Disney movie in bed under the blanket on my small pink television that was covered in Disney stickers! 💙💙💙 Maybe I'll write her some stories one day but on my YouTube Channel are audiobooks of most of my gymnastics stories I'm not sure if she will like them as hanging upside down is the main theme but you can watch them with her if you want! 🙃🙃🙃 Here is a link to my YouTube channel and the first episode of Emily and the talking gymnastics bar! 🙃🙃🙃

https://youtube.com/@lucyjames520?si=Q4KV7W51PCHI_lMV

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Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Nah, never tried it. My Niece and Nephew are about that age and they like to fall asleep with a David Attenborough doco on the TV.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@Thevy29 That's handy. David has a nice bedtime voice. But unless he is doing a documentary about rabbits and horses, my girl won't be happy.
MommyLucy · 36-40, F
@SunshineGirl I totally understand her because I like stories to involve hanging upside down so I understand that she wants rabbits, horses or a princess so if anyone understands her it's definitely me! 😁😁😁
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
Everyone keeps telling me how wonderful these AI tools are and this morning even Firefox persuaded my to put ChatGPT on my browser. I have no idea what good it will do, but if it does something spectacular I'll be in touch.

Full disclosure: I am having a bit of fun with AI image creation/manipulation for my own pleasure. I expect I will get bored before long.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@SunshineGirl That sounds like fun. You lost me with the word 'coding' which I have no understanding of. I suspect it's far beyond what my aged brain can cope with.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@FreddieUK It's programming language that allows me to manipulate hundreds of thousands of pieces of data that my job depends upon without writing them out again multiple times. I don't have the time to learn it fully myself, so AI translates my English requests into something that usually works.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@SunshineGirl I understood that. That's a good reason for having it.
The current issue I have with AI is that those centers take up huge amounts of space and consume massive electrical energy. It drives up the cost of utility bills for those who live local to those places.
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@froggtongue A legitimate concern. Humans should not have to compete with machines for energy.
sarabee1995 · 31-35, F
Lol, that's awesome!
Lilnonames · F
never used it
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Lilnonames Nor me, nor will I if I can help it; and being no parent (so not Grandad either) the problem of bed-time stories does not arise.

Nevertheless it does worry me that in time many people will never be able to use their imaginations and be creative, if all they will need do is ask a computer.

 
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