How do nerves send messages through your body?
Quick Answer
Nerves send messages using tiny electrical signals and chemical messengers. Signals travel along nerve cells, and at junctions called synapses, chemicals help pass the message to the next cell.
Why This Story Works for Bedtime
It’s calming ‘your body communicates quietly’ science. It can make kids feel safe and cared for inside their own bodies.
Story at a Glance
RECOMMENDED AGES
10-11 years
READING TIME
4 min
Story Synopsis
Your body is full of messages—‘touch is warm,’ ‘move your fingers,’ ‘that tickles.’ This story explains how nerves send those signals. Miluna shares that nerve cells (neurons) carry fast electrical signals along long fibers. When the signal reaches the end, it meets a tiny gap. Across that gap, chemical messengers help deliver the message to the next cell. This is how your brain and body stay connected. The tone stays gentle and reassuring, highlighting the body’s quiet teamwork. Curiosity stories like this help kids understand themselves and feel comforted at bedtime.
Story Excerpt
Right now as you read this messages are traveling through your body faster than you can blink They're racing from your eyes to your brain from your brain to your fingers from your skin to your spine These messages move along special pathways called nerves and they help you see think move and feel everything around you Nerves are like thin cables made of special cells called neurons Each neuron is incredibly tiny but some of them stretch quite far The longest ones in your body reach all the way from your lower back down to your toes If you could see a neuron under a microscope it would look a bit like a tree with branches at one end a long trunk in the middle and roots…
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In One Glance
Nerves communicate through neurons. An electrical impulse travels along a neuron’s axon. At a synapse—the small gap between cells—the signal triggers release of neurotransmitters that bind to the next cell and continue the message. Some signals go to muscles to create movement; others carry touch, pain, or temperature information to the brain. The story frames this as calm internal communication and emphasizes the body’s helpful coordination.
Frequently Asked Questions
It explains electrical signals in neurons and chemical messengers at synapses.
Ages 10–11.
Yes—reassuring ‘quiet teamwork’ inside the body.
No. It stays gentle and educational.
It builds health and biology understanding and supports a love of learning through reading.