Recommendations for Parents: Short Children's Tales

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

A fairy tale is one of the most amazing creations of folk fantasy. Having appeared in ancient times, it is still loved by children today: from the smallest to the fully grown ones. As soon as your child learns letters, learns to read, books with fairy tales become his dearest and most beloved friends.

Advice to parents

If your baby is unreasonably naughty or capricious, if he does not want to eat such a he althy semolina porridge or go to bed, in most situations it is short children's fairy tales that will help to calm down an out-of-control child. Why short? Because you need to calm the child quickly. In large-scale works, as a rule, the narration is unhurried, the change of events takes place slowly. But short children's tales captivate from the very first lines, taking them into a world of adventures and unusual heroes.

When reading together, be sure to draw the attention of children to the victory of good over evil. So you lay in your child the first moral criteria,you will form the belief that punishment follows misconduct, and it is better to be benevolent and honest than malicious. Just do not transfer the evaluation of heroes to the children themselves and do not stick labels on the kids. Do not frighten them with threats that for disobedience a wolf will come and eat it or Baba Yaga will take it to her hut. From early childhood, a child should be imbued with the poetic world of a fairy tale, the atmosphere of a miracle, and not with fear. You don't want to instill a lot of complexes in your daughter or son!

Rhythmic foundation

It would be nice if the works contained rhyming lines. Children memorize them, developing their speech and memory. It is even better if short children's tales are written in poetic form, such as the works of Chukovsky, Zakhoder, Mikhalkov. Your children can remember them entirely. Then parents get the opportunity to organize a new form of joint play - role-playing retelling. Such activities are very useful for both adults and kids. They contribute to the development of pedagogical skills in fathers and mothers, communication skills in children. And be sure to try to buy such books in which short children's fairy tales are equipped with bright, colorful illustrations. They will make the process of getting involved in literature more exciting.

We come from childhood

However, grandparents, moms and dads can also try their hand at writing. If you have the talent of a storyteller, then writing will work too. After all, we, adults, often do not know whatable. Moreover, a children's fairy tale of their own composition, short and dynamic, can be composed on current events, and the things and toys surrounding the child become its heroes. In this case, invented stories are organically woven into the realities of the baby's life. Thus, in growing boys and girls, a special attitude to the world is brought up - creative, effective, innovative. A non-standard view of the environment activates non-standard thinking. Dear adults, remember: a children's fairy tale of your own composition, short, dynamic and kind, with a deep meaning, will remain in the memory of your kids for life and become a bridge connecting childhood with maturity.

So that the kids sleep soundly

But back to pressing issues. Boys and girls of preschool age, and even students in grades 1-5 are very fond of being read an interesting book before going to bed. However, let's think about what children's bedtime stories should be like. The main task of such reading is to calm, relax, pacify. Therefore, of course, in no case should you choose scary stories: with sorcerers, vampires, monsters and other otherworldly creatures. Too funny and dynamic, with a variety of tense storylines, will not work either. But fairy tales like "Teremka", "Cockerel and Millers", "Puss in Boots", about the Fox and the Cockerel, Frost and Cinderella can be safely taken. Girls, as a rule, like stories about princesses, boys like social stories and stories about animals, knights and Ivan Tsarevich.

Agecriteria

Fairy tales for children are conventionally divided into age categories. What a son or daughter liked at 5 years old, at 10-12 years old, will simply evoke a kind smile of memory and no more. This means that every age has its own wonderful stories. For example, the works of the Brothers Grimm are suitable for younger students, and the funny stories of Astrid Lindgren are intended for the older contingent. Most of Andersen's fairy tales, even such familiar "The Little Mermaid" and "The Snow Queen", have hidden philosophical overtones, which the child can most often understand with the help of elders. The rule also applies to more complex things, such as, for example, the fairy tales-parables of Exupery about the Little Prince or Anthony Pogorelsky about the Black Hen, Garin-Mikhailovsky about the boy Tem and his dog Zhuchka. But if suddenly your kid took up a work that is clearly more complicated than his current level of development, you should not take the book away. What remains incomprehensible will make an inquisitive child turn to the text again and again - this is how thinkers are formed!