my partner really likes reading stories to the children.. which is great but his/her voice is really monotonous. is it ok for me to ask him/her to put a bit more expression into it?
jimboville
Oct 4, 2018
Since giving birth, a terrible terrible thing obviously, my wife can't go anywhere without carrying drinking water with her. And now, apparently, it must be in a flip-top sports container, even though she's not particularly sporty. Even the simple journey between our front door and the car is riven with worry. I think she feels she might dehydrate in the twenty feet betwixt door and vehicle. She genuinely panics! There is now a 'munchausen by proxy' effect of myself taking on the worry of her shrivelling up. What do I do?
My partner likes to read bedtime stories in a terrible sing song voice, I do my best to demonstrate a more normal way of speaking when I do it but he/she just rolls her/his eyes and leaves the room
I sometimes have to moderate myself at the school's weekly class reading day... as some of the parents don't have my ability to inhabit the characters and bring the story to life.
Is it ok to do all the characters in the same voice? I worry that when i'm doing certain people I slip into cultural and ethnic stereo-types.