Story telling to children

Story telling to children to some people is useless and a waste of time. But here are some reasons why story telling to children is important, essential and should be done by the parent (preferably), caregiver or carer, or nannies.
Story telling to children is one of the most important activities that a parent, a caregiver, carer, or nanny can do to a child. This activity develops the child's imagination. Story telling can create countless scenarios and possibilities. It can make the impossible, possible. Like for instance, in many of our story books; Animals can talk, people can fly, and being able to live in beautiful places. Though we are not teaching children to live in fantasy but rather help children develop some components in their brain to function physiologically. Imagination is a conscious activity requiring an amount of focus and concentration (esp. for young children). As parents or caregivers, we have the responsibility to strike the balance to separate fact from fiction. In your story telling time it is very important to show the realities of life.


For example you are story telling about "Pinocchio"; children would love the story and begins to imagine the wood boy, how he looks like, how he talks, how he would run, how it would feel if your nose gets longer (since Pinocchio's nose gets longer when he was telling a lie) and how it would feel if you are in the fish belly (since Pinocchio was inside the fish together with his father). But yet you need also to tell the kids that children are not made from wood but come from real people; that this part of the story (Pinocchio turning into a real boy) is not real. Or fairies can do that (turning a piece of wood into a real boy). As not to create a wrong impression that wood can be made into kids, or vice versa or something like that.