You, Me & A Story: The Art of Impromptu Story Telling

You, Me & A Story: The Art of Impromptu Story Telling

The world around us is changing every day, every hour, every minute and every second. The technology brings these changes to our fingertips whether we want or whether we like it. There is an information overload, an outburst, an implosion and itâ€™s not just percolating into our lives, but also our kids. Sometimes we share this information with the kids and sometimes we shield our kids from this information. But the kids have access to technology and the latest gadgets If not our kids, other kids have access and so the kids are invariably exposed to the good and the bad, the right and the wrong. Thus an environment is created in which our kids access this information, no matter what.
Kids, thus exposed to this information, sometimes without any filters, have no avenue to discern what is appropriate for them at their age. They obviously canâ€™t talk to their teachers at school since they are always playing catch up with their school syllabus and they canâ€™t talk to their parents either, since they are busy with their daily grind of work-- kids, family and livelihood.
So how do we create space to engage with the kids in a way that allows them to talk, interpret, discern and understand about topics, issues, events, disasters that they see or hear happening around them.
Bedtime stories. Yes, bedtime stories with my kids is one way I found to have the conversations. Conversations that are sometimes difficult, sometimes lighthearted, sometimes engaging, sometimes revealing. This book in some ways is a compilation of those stories.
Storytelling started as a way to put my daughter to bed. I didn't want to read from the book because then I had to turn on the light and that distracted her. So I figured I will just make it up spontaneously. It's been seven years now since Iâ€™ve been telling stories to my daughter and now
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-01-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-01-13
Format	Kindle eBook