Getting your child into reading books is one of the first steps towards enhancing their linguistic skills. Moreover, stories can also modify your child's perception of the world, teach them important life lessons, and enhance their knowledge. Through stories, you can educate your child about historical facts, inspire them from the lives of great personalities, and work on their imagination and creativity.
One of the best ways to get your child into the regular practice of reading storybooks is to tell them some interesting stories. Also, engaging stories are one of the best ways of instilling necessary values in your child. Hence, here is a list of carefully selected moral stories for your child to make them more mindful and practice honesty, kindness, and courage.
The right story for your child is the one that consists of a gripping plot, a valuable lesson, and interesting characters. Here is a list of such stories that fulfil all these requirements.
This is a story about a frog and a mouse who are very good friends. The frog would often come out of the pond to specially meet the mouse. However, the mouse would never do the same for the frog, which is why the frog grew hostile over time. The frog decided to take revenge on the mouse. It tied a thread on the leg of the mouse and attached the thread to itself. As soon as the frog jumps into the pond, the mouse is dragged into the pond. The mouse starts shouting and asks for help, and that's when a passing hawker notices it. The hawker rescues the mouse, but the frog is also dragged out of the pond along with the mouse. While being dragged out, the frog ends up hitting a rock and dies instantly. The story teaches kids to be kind whenever possible and not hold grudges.
There was one milkmaid called Mary, who used to make a lot of money by selling milk. Eventually, she turned malicious and started adding water to the milk. Soon, her customers realized the impurity of the milk and stopped buying the milk from her. Mary, who used to make so much money earlier, was now left with no customers at all. The moral of the story is that honesty is the best policy.
Once upon a time, there lived a little red hen who wanted to plant wheat on a farm. However, she couldn't do it on her own and asked for help from other animals in the surrounding area. But no one agreed to help her, and she was left on her own in the end. The little red hen worked day and night on her farm and got a very good harvest in the end. Now it was wintertime, and all the animals were left with nothing to eat. That's when all these animals decided to reach out to the little red hen and ask for some food. Despite her previous experience, the little red hen decided to help all the other animals and taught them the lesson of kindness. The lesson learnt from the story is that no act of kindness is ever wasted.
Once, there lived a lion in a jungle. The lion was a ferocious killer in his youth, but with age, he could not hunt as much. This is why the lion sought help from his other animal friends to hunt for food. One day, the lion and all his friends went out for a hunt and got a lot of food. However, as soon as it was time to share, the lion denied everyone their fair share and asked them to go away. This made all the other animals extremely angry, and they decided not to help the lion again. This left the lion alone, eventually dying of hunger as he could not find food. The story sheds light on the fact that honesty is essential to making the right friends.
This is the story of Sandra, who decides to attend a swimming lesson. During her swimming classes, she meets a girl named June who bullies her for no reason. June calls Sandra derogatory names and makes fun of her swimming style. This makes Sandra extremely sad and disappointed, and she decides not to attend her swimming classes anymore. Eventually, Sandra's mother finds out about June and motivates Sandra to confront her bully. Sandra then takes things in her stride and complains about June to the swimming coach. June is eventually expelled from the classes and taught a valuable lesson. Through this story, kids can learn how courage has the power to change their future.
Each of these stories is easy to understand, has relatable characters, and a virtue to teach your child. You may narrate this to your kid just before their bedtime to end the day on a motivational note.