The wondrous world of stories!
At times, we as adults fail to nurture our children’s quest for imagination and curiosity. With two minutes of your time, I will highlight how you can use the magic of stories to support your child in imbibing values and a desired skill set. Reading transforms your child's world and enables their subconscious to absorb the hidden values and messages of a book. A popular example from my childhood is the "sher aaya, sher aaya" story. We don’t approach this by forcing “ideal values” into them, but rather try to hit their imaginative world with something they can truly relate to. Educating them about something through a beautifully crafted story has a very different impact. The tiger has come, the tiger has come, the child shouted for the 6th time, all the villagers are scared but what if the child runs to her sister and tells her, "I'm scared to go to school, there are people troubling me". The core idea that we believe in is that children live in a world of...