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Once upon a time, we all grew up listening to stories from our parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

Sometimes powerful, sometimes meaningless, sometimes moral stories and sometimes just hilarious!

Remember how much you enjoyed this story time?

How magical it was... and how much it made you wonder?

Now answer this…

Today, as parents, how much time do you spend with your child, telling them stories?

Welcome to Project Parenting. I'm Vidya, a psychologist & a learning and development specialist, and in this video, I’ll be explaining the crucial role that stories play in the lives of our children - and how you can become a great storyteller!

Children love stories.

At any point, at any time, stories simply have the power to flip any situation for the better.

Is your child not eating? Narrate a story and they will!
Is your child bored sitting at home while it’s pouring outside? Tell them a story and they’ll be entertained!
Want to calm your child during a tantrum? Tell them a story and it’ll do the trick!

Unfortunately today, storytelling is slowly becoming obsolete because parents prefer to just hand their kids a gadget to fidget with, rather than to escape with them into magical castles.

And here’s where this becomes a problem…

Without great children's stories, children miss out on a lot of developmental milestones.

So first, let’s understand this...

Why do we need to tell good moral stories to children?

Storytelling plays a very important role in the cognitive development of infants and young kids.

It helps improve key areas like memory and language skills, it sparks curiosity which increases the child’s imaginative skills, and it gives the child new perceptions of the world around them every single time.

Reading child stories from different cultures will open their minds to the variation around them and create a deeper understanding of people.

Storytelling is also a really interactive and fun way to spend quality time with your kids which will thereby strengthen the bond you have with them.

This will make them feel loved, cared for, and just a lot closer to you than before.

What are some alternative methods of storytelling you can adopt?

There are a few more fun ways in which you can incorporate storytelling with your kids.

Let’s have a look at them:

Storytelling through videos

Interactive storytelling

Storytelling games:
Let’s have a look at a few popular types of stories that your tots will love!

String-along storytelling
b) Tale Twist
c) Picture-based storytelling
d) Object-based storytelling
e) Passers-by storytelling

How stories can change your child’s life:
Vidya Ragu goes on to tell us about how stories can be used as a great motivating factor with your kids.

If your child’s low on confidence in certain areas, instead of just asking them to gain confidence, you can find stories of inspiring people to tell your child in a way that your child believes they could be that person and adapt their strategies and ideology.

She also talks about how storytelling is now being used in various fields of business, in relationship building, etc, primarily because storytelling releases the hormone oxytocin in us.

Oxytocin helps us feel happy and makes us feel connected to the storyteller. This again, makes the bond between you and your child stronger.

Our neurons fire information at 5 times the normal speed when we’re listening to stories.

Isn’t that interesting?

How to tell stories to your child:

Storytelling is both an art and a science.
Make sure you’re emotionally expressive and excited while you're reading stories.
Use actions and exhibit positive and happy body language, too. Read quotes by different characters in different voices and make your kid laugh!
Pick your moments to tell them these stories. It can be during bedtime, while travelling, while spending time out with your child, when they’re eating, etc.
Read them short moral stories in English, in their second language and even in a third language sometimes. You can include words from different languages when you’re reading stories from different cultures to them!

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