Teach kids life skills

Knowing the benefits of stories, every mother and teacher should know how to tell stories  so that kids enjoy and learn. Like any other art story telling can be mastered by practice. There are stories around us and have been listening to many since our childhood. Just pick one which you are comfortable with. Start with a small story with a few characters. Voice: Narrate with a clear voice pronouncing the words properly. Try to bring variation in your voice according to the mood and characters. Bring the expressions out through your voice like anger, kindness, clumsiness. Pace: Keep proper pace appropriate to create the right atmosphere. Repeat the phrases or the words to bring in the effect.  Try to hum the repetition. Take pauses when required allowing it to assimilate, and to encourage questions or response from your kids. Questions : Ask questions and your kid's views so that they think and analyse. It helps them to frame questions and comp...

One can be happy by  being contented. When one is contented, one has the feeling of completeness. Feeling grateful comes from this, when you can see what you have and not crib on what you don't have. Life is a mystery and who knows what unfolds in future. It depends how we accept and face every situation good and bad.  By instilling gratitude in kids, we are helping them to be stronger inside. Gratitude changes one's outlook towards life and helps in being happy and at peace.  Its not a big task or you dont have to take extra efforts to inculcate gratitude.  You can bring up grateful kids by doing some simple things along with your regular routine.  Simple questions: Asking simple questions like  How was the day? What made you happy? What did you receive today?  will make them think.  Encourage them to tell you what they got like a compliment , a chocolate, help, pencil. Encourage kids to tell the reason they ...