Before industrial times, and with nomadic peoples, on pleasant evenings,the first hours after sunset before sleep were likely spent outside. As stars and planets appeared, one by one at first, perhaps parents made up stories about the different stars, the children coming to their parents’ laps as they grew tired. The parents weren’t creating the characters from the midnight skies, when millions of stars carpet the night and it’s harder to detect patterns, but from the evening skies. That’s when it’s easiest to spot the constellations. The brightest stars are visible first, and even though a parent may be unfamiliar with traditional constellation names, it’s easy to see how some cluster together. So what if a few years later, your kid learns the constellation you called the Toy Box, is more commonly known as Pegasus, and Batman is aka Orion. They will be familiar with the night sky, and how it faithfully shifts from month to month, season to season. Right now, it's summer in the northern hemisphere. Scorpio, the long impressive scorpion with its red heart star Antares, is visible to the south, as is Sagittarius the archer, which looks like a teapot.