Stories – gift your kids right values by the right tales

There must be something which you strongly believe and if you don’t mind please look back into that to find out the source of your belief.

For now let’s talk about my beliefs. There are few things which I strongly believe and no matter how hard I try I cannot change it. For example 1. Do not lie 2. Follow your heart and few more like these which really played vital role in my life style.

I won’t say I don’t lie at all (we all have to be social liar) but yes you can catch that easily because of the hesitation I get at the time of not telling the truth. This hesitation is due to moral values that I learned during my childhood and if I look back to the sources of these beliefs, I don’t remember my parents have ever taught me any of these directly. Those came from the folktales and story books.

I grew up in a small town and so most of my beliefs come from that place. Every night we all kids used to gather around the temple and listened to elderly people, their experiences, their thinking, their struggles and their beliefs. Those elderly people were our neighbors, grandparents, great-grandparents and even monk who told us many tales and truths about the town and nearby things. Well some were truths and some were myths but those tales left its effect in our heart. Many things we couldn’t understand at that time but realized during our growing age and those learning helped us to survive, to struggle and to move ahead in our life without losing our confidence and self-control.

Old times were different. We had great-grandparents, grandparents, neighbors or even monk to tell us stories and we learned a lot from them. I don’t remember who told me what but I definitely remember the concept, the motive, the moral, the manner and the hope that they gave us during those years.

Those stories helped me to stay focused on my goals during my bad times and encouraging me to follow my heart at this age too. Things that I truly believe and keep me alive came from those stories. That is something I always cherish and share with my daughter to give her strength to live life freely.

Well now old days are gone. Our kids hardly get opportunities to spend time with their own grandparents. Thus it is our responsibility to give them tales, talks and lifelong thoughts to survive. And that can be achieved by the olden ways just with the new people and new concept. What I mean is stories, same stories but with the parents or with the books.

“Madam Flora” is a kids’ story book which demonstrates day to day disciplines and manners in kids’ friendly language which I wrote especially for my daughter. She learned a lot from those stories and so I thought to share with other parents to give benefits of it.

Stories are stories but it gives different impact based on the time. During night (sleep) hours our subconscious mind gets more alert. Thoughts we put into that mind stays for longer duration so we prefer to tell the stories at the time of bed. Sometimes kids may not understand the real concept or they may not remember the whole story but in longer run you will see the difference in their thoughts, in their views, in their vision to see the world and in their behavior. It helps to soothe their mind too.

Well I guess now you have enough reasons to get a story book for your kids to give them something to cherish, something to treasure and something to learn so please buy one if not mine then any other author’s but gift them the right values by the right tales.

If you would like to know more about “reading with kids” please refer my article on Early Readers.