CHILDREN’S STORIES AS TOOLS FOR PARENTS:
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Sometimes these old stories can be good parenting tools for us to use. Many of the old stories that included morals are especially good at teaching respect, responsibility, and the Golden Rule. They can be used as a starting point to help open up communication with our children. It gives kids a place to start talking without having to directly discuss what has happened to them or what they might have done. Then, as parents, we can gently ease them into a more open direct discussion of their own experiences.
An example is when your child is getting teased and mocked at school. It happens much more frequently than we sometimes realize. And sometimes we don’t find out until our children have been putting up with bad behavior on the part of other students (and sometimes teachers) for quite some time. So, frequently, we are in the position of trying to hurry and fix a situation that has been going on for weeks or months. A story is a good place to start. And if we are dealing with behavior problems in our own children, these stories can also help us with those issues.
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Here are just a few short stories for your use. These are taken from books that are now in the “Public Domain”, which means there is no longer a copyright in the United States associated with the publication.
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