Oh My Goodness O.M.G.

Oh my goodness, O.M.G. looking at your grandparents in a magical way when they were kids too and how they played without all the modern cons such as televisions and computers. Let's imagine visiting the past and take a look inside their homes stretching a good 80 years ago for some things were yet to be invented!

Transcript

Welcome to this guided sleep meditation called Oh My Goodness OMG.

Let's begin.

Ready for bedtime?

Find your pillow.

Prepare your pillow.

Please give it a mighty magic squeeze for the best dreams ever.

Please settle into bed now and rest your head into the soft pillow.

Closing the right eye and begin to tense the right side of the body,

All your right muscles tight.

Closing the left eye and tense the left side of the body,

All your left muscles tight.

Please completely relax that whole body now.

Let's think and dream about something wonderful going back in time to the past,

Possibly 80 years ago,

Almost nearly not quite 100 years.

Oh my goodness,

OMG,

How your grandparents lived when they were children too.

Before televisions,

Before computers,

Mobile phones and having a family car,

Lots of things were yet to be invented.

Back to the past,

Let's have a good look in this dream.

Grandparents as children.

So first,

Let's watch grandma stop growing older but starts looking younger as she shrinks to child size.

Looking at her all long and shiny in ponytails.

Her cheeks are covered in freckles and starts giggling like a playful little girl.

Her hands are the right size for your hands.

In her pocket is a piece of magic string for hand string games.

Remind her later to show you this game that works well passing the string to one another.

Let's watch grandpa stop growing old and starts looking younger as he shrinks to child size.

Look at his thick curly hair,

Freckles on a little nose,

Dainty yet his arms have little muscles.

Hands to the right size for you.

In his pocket is shiny coloured glass marbles to play and win with.

Also a bit of a anytime anywhere game which he can explain later in your dream.

So with everyone holding hands now,

It's time to skip out and head to the past,

Almost not quite,

Nearly a hundred years ago.

Looking at their childhood homes.

We know in a sense they both grew in different houses but both would be very similar.

So there is a small front garden but a big garden at the back.

There are some chickens laying fresh eggs and a tortoise freely roaming about in this garden.

The tortoise is eating a fresh strawberry.

Take a moment to look a little closer as you follow the tortoise to the back of the garden.

A much loved dog is here with a hand painted kennel where he heads for cover on rainy days.

There's an ode ball chewed nicely by this dog and a football and a netball.

I wonder what your favourite dog is in the whole world.

Oh my goodness,

OMG.

So many vegetables are growing and growing here.

All in neat rows of different colours.

For vegetables are very colourful.

There is fruit too,

Fresh strawberries and a much loved apple tree for baking pies.

There's quite a few bicycles of different sizes for there is no car.

Some of the large bicycles have a basket on the front for shopping trips.

So,

No car,

No television,

No computers,

No mobile phones.

How did they balance work with play?

Time to look inside grandma's and grandpa's home.

Let's open that front door.

Notice inside the door there is a row of Wellington boots for lots of walkabouts for all types of weather,

Be it rainy or snowy.

And a kite or two for windy weather fun games.

Have a moment,

Feel the lightness of colourful flying kites.

A pair of old roller skates and a skateboard are hanging up for they were too much trouble laid on the floor.

Anyone could have had an accident.

Hand knitted colourful really long scarves for the seasons of autumn and winter.

What colours would you have liked your own scarf to be knitted in?

Simply imagine now and hang it up in a jiffy.

Follow your noses into the kitchen if you please.

The kitchen is like a busy bakery shop with baking tins,

Glass jars and big pot bowls to make dozens of cheap and cheerful homemade treats.

Like jam tarts,

Sausage rolls.

Can you smell the warm sweet toffee apples setting in the kitchen window?

Delicious smells and heat fill the kitchen air.

So grab a warm toffee apple and keep walking and exploring about.

Well I really can't find any televisions but there is a large old style radio with a lot of chairs and a rocking chair and bean bags around the radio.

The radio has a big button to switch it on and off.

The button if you look closely is worn out a bit so they must have loved listening to it.

Now singing was big in most of the world.

Mum,

Dad,

The children all had great singing voices.

Singing in the bath,

The shower,

Singing whilst doing chores,

Singing along to the radio of course.

There's a newspaper showing what time the radio programmes are on.

Children's radio stories,

Family stories that are on daily and some weekly.

Sometimes listening is enough but we can still imagine it all in the head.

A long shiny wooden cabinet has many records on its shelf and opens up in the middle to reveal a record player.

So you would have to be a bit of a DJ and change the records of different songs yourself.

Most of us like dancing and that includes me.

Explore later what music you would like to hear.

There's some cinema tickets for the weekend where big Walt Disney films were first seen on a large screen by hundreds of children for the very first time together.

Often an ice cream interval where the films stopped half way.

Also theatre tickets but not too many.

Theatre shows with a big one at Christmas and some for public holidays.

Also some small bus tickets when a long journey is too much by foot for the public bus is fun and fast to get about.

Now going upstairs,

Yes upstairs where bunk beds fitted well in small bedrooms.

Each bed has a hot water bottle to keep your toes lovely and warm.

Den making is a lot of fun.

Throwing large blankets over a chair or two.

There are a few old toys that aided and created with other children pantomime stories together.

Ode dolls,

A few soldiers and some really interesting teddy bears and dressing up clothes that often called for a visit to the parents wardrobe once you asked permission to wear a hat or a different coat or a scarf.

There are many board games and card games for children and parents to join in.

Board games really last well and you don't need any batteries.

A game of Donimos,

Monopoly,

Maybe you know some more.

Colourful jigsaw puzzles that slowly picture together piece by piece.

There is library members cards in a drawer to keep them tidy.

So books galore could be borrowed from the local library.

Books are really special full of things you like and libraries keep every book you could possibly imagine.

I'm going to finish now with a lovely long list of many things for you to continue in the stream.

Yes,

A list of things grandparents did as children.

Little boys like frogs and snails.

Little girls like flowers and lady birds.

Cinema tickets,

Wonderful new films.

Radio stories daily and weekly.

Singing voices filled the house with love.

Pocket money.

Big family jumble sales.

The brownies.

The boy scouts.

School trips on a big bus.

Gardens full of fresh vegetables.

Pets at home.

Dogs,

Cats,

Fishes and tortoises.

Jigsaw puzzles galore.

Board games and card games.

Dancing to records.

Acting pantomime.

Real pantomime.

Roller skating.

Skate boarding.

Cycling long distances.

Walkabouts and climbing trees.

Dog shows.

Vegetable competition shows the biggest and the best.

Home baking.

Den making.

Chalk games with a hop and a skip.

Drawing,

Colouring competitions.

Instruments to play.

Flying kites in the wind.

Marbles to play and win.

Books from the library.

Skipping ropes and boats to float.

Sand castle days.

But no television.

No computer.

No phone.

No car.

No plastic was invented just yet.

Tins,

Glass jars and large pot bowls.

So please keep exploring and dreaming of grandpa and grandma's home from the past.

It's time for a very big yawn.

Yawn,

Yawn,

Yawn.

Rest into your soft pillow for happy dreams.

And dream again and again.

Sweet dreams.