Over the past few years, there have been a number of articles and reports involving around the search for a method of effective parenting. Most parents and education activists tended to follow educational values derived from different cultures such as America, Japan, England, Australia and China, especially lessons from the Jewish community.
However, there is a traditional teaching approach of our ancestors that many people do not notice. That is the way of teaching children through fables.
Like folk poems and folk songs, fables have been integrated stories about animals and plants to convey morals which are considered to be hard for parents to express to their children. If you want to teach some morals for children, for instance, the story “Tortoise and the Hare” teaches children that they should not be subjective and need to be patient. On the other hand, the “The dog and the bone” teaches them that greed should be eradicated. The "The sheaf of chopsticks" is also suitable for teaching them about unity. There are hundreds of such stories collected by our ancestors throughout history.
Back in time to the 2000s or sooner, you easily caught sight of fables in books or magazines and heard them through parents before bedtime. The barber has a special attraction to children through funny fables and the elderly in the village like a treasure of fairy tales and fables; they are willing to tell their stories to children on bright moonlight nights.
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| Fables are the simplest tools for conveying the good things to your childhood.(Photo from the internet) |
You can even forget these stories as growing up; however, one thing that indelibly engraved in your mind is that they lead you to good things in your life. You can make good friends, support them and stay away from bad habits in life. Although morals can be learned from friends, teachers, schools, and society, fables are the simplest tool for conveying the good things to your childhood.
These fables have been still high rated in education programs of elementary schools and kindergarten. However, society has been much changed so that storytelling habits were not popular anymore. Instead, the application of new methods and more modern approaches from abroad have been common. Most of the lessons are conveyed directly rather than hidden in small stories.
For example, to teach children do not lie or make up stories, you will tell them the harmful effects of bad lies or let them imagine a specific situation in life to understand and know that they should not do that. There is no lack of good stories that you can use instead such as "The Shepherd Boy" and "Bon buys candy". As a matter of fact, you should be also an example for your own children to follow.
It is normally difficult to convey meaningful messages and good moral ideas just through the stories but it is needed to repeat them more times in many different manners and situations. Thus, finding how to teach children through fairy tales and fables is useful improvements for parents during the whole parenting process from childhood to adulthood. That is such a long journey for parents. Their skills should be adjusted to be suitable to each changing current circumstances because they play a leading role in shaping personalities of children in the future.
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