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The Little Bat Who Wouldn't Go To Bed 🦇✨ Premium Story Preview ✨

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A bonus story from Sleep Tight Premium. Do you like to go to bed? The little bat in today’s bedtime story for kids didn’t want to go to bed. He wanted to stay awake and see what the day was like. He goes out, but the light is very bright and the sounds are too loud. The little bat decides that maybe his mom and dad were right, and he should be sleeping instead. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖   💡 We would love to hear your story ideas! Send us your ideas and if we use your idea in a story we will give you a shoutout on the show!   Support Us 👉 If you are enjoying the podcast and would like to show your support, get Sleep Tight Premium: Sleep Tight Premium 🎈Shop for Sleep Tight Stories merch.! ✨Help us improve the show by supporting us on Patreon for as little as $2. https://www.patreon.com/sleeptightstories ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends.   ❤️ We would love to hear from you, reach out to us via our website. While there you can find the words to most of our stories. ❤️ We're social! Let's connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter     About Sleep Tight Stories Sleep Tight Stories is the award-winning kids podcast trusted by millions of families around the world. Each bedtime story is lovingly created to reflect children’s lived experiences while gently guiding them toward rest. Make bedtime the sweetest part of everyone’s day—with Sleep Tight Stories.   Sleep Tight Premium Subscribe to Premium to get instant access to interruption-free episodes, extra exclusive stories, breathing and mindfulness episodes, and music and sound for sleep. Sleep Tight Premium feed includes: No interruptions or ads 🙌 4 + sleep stories per week 📖 Mindfulness and meditation episodes 🧘🏽 Extra long sleep sounds and music episodes 🔊 Access to our full catalog of over 500+ episodes 📚 Special shoutouts for the kids (including birthdays) ❤️ Get your 7-day free trial: https://sleeptightstories.org/support/

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0:00.0

Today's story is about a little bat who thinks he knows better than his parents and is very determined to do something

0:26.6

that they have told him he should not. Little bat has decided that he does not want to sleep all day. He wants to go out and see what happens

0:42.2

when he is sleeping. Let's see what he discovers. The little bat who wouldn't go to bed.

1:00.4

Come, said Mama Bat, lying toward her home in the cave. It is time that you children went to bed.

1:10.6

The eastern sky is growing bright, and I can see the fleecy clouds blush rosy red as the sun looks at them.

1:21.9

The little bats flitted along after her, and Papa bat came behind them.

1:28.3

They had been flying through the starlit forest all night,

1:34.3

chasing the many small insects that came out after the sun has gone down

1:41.3

and passing in and out of the tangled branches without ever touching one.

1:50.7

Indeed, Mama Bat would have been embarrassed if children of hers flew against anything in the dark.

1:59.4

There might be some excuse for such a mistake in the daytime.

2:04.4

For bat's eyes do not see well then, but in the night time?

2:10.4

She would have scolded them well, and they would have deserved it.

2:16.0

For bats have the most wonderful way of feeling things before they touch them.

2:23.3

And there are no other people in the forest who can do that.

2:29.3

There are no other people who can tell by the feeling of the air when something is near.

2:37.8

And the bats had a great laugh with their friend the screech owl once when he flew against a tree and fell to the ground.

2:53.6

And now the night was over, and their mother had called them to go home.

2:59.6

One of the little bats hung back with a very angry look on his face,

3:05.6

and twice his father had to tell him to fly faster. He was thinking how he

3:14.6

would like to see the forest in the daytime. He had never seen the sunrise, and he wanted to do that.

3:29.0

He had never seen any of the day birds or the animals that wake in the morning. He thought it was pretty mean to make poor little bats go off to bed the minute the stars

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