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Children love hearing or reading stories all the time especially before going to bed. Sometimes as adults, we love telling children stories and sometimes just say it so that the children can just go to bed. However, there are multiple benefits to telling children stories that not only help them during their childhood but also the progress for their growth as they grow up. Here are 7 benefits for storytelling for your children: 1. Your children will have values and virtues

We all know that young kids love to listen to stories. When you tell them stories, this means that you are investing an adequate amount of time with them while telling them stories. During this time, it is important that you filter whatever you tell your children as they learn from whatever you say. This is when you take out the time to teach them valuable lessons. Telling them bluntly will be boring for them and they will never understand. On the other hand, telling them these values subtly through characters that they can relate to and stories that will make them feel amazed. They will learn positive qualities such as kindness, wisdom, compassion, bravery, and more. 2. Boosts their imagination

When children listen to stories, they imagine the characters, plot, setting, and sometimes even put themselves in the story. It is different from what they watch on TV as on TV, every visual element is there for you while reading books can help you imagine things the way you would want them to be. Reading helps enhance imagination, creativity and opens the child’s head to new and positive ideas. It can motivate them to even do something more creative in their life like writing a book themself or scripts or even composing a musical piece. Characters in books have a very strong effect on children. It is important that you condition the characters in a way that they influence your child in a positive manner.

3. Enhances the child’s communication skills

When children read, it enhances their vocabulary as they learn new words and this also helps improve their language. Stories also help children to communicate their thoughts, feelings, and ideas more freely. While you are doing storytelling with your children, encourage them to ask more questions, discuss their thoughts and see what their opinions on the story are. Storytelling will also help the child broaden their vocabulary and pick up new words. If the character is portrayed in a positive manner in the book where he is speaking to other children in a friendly manner, your child will learn from this and will behave the same way with his peers in real life. 4. Sharpen your child’s memory

Want to sharpen your child’s memory apart from just feeding them vegetables that you think might do the job? Then do it the fun way for you and your child instead and inculcate storytelling in their day to day life. When you read a story to your child, review them or ask them about some

of the details of the story. Analyze the details with your child. Ask them several questions about how much information they have retained from what you have told them. This is a great way to jog and sharpen your child’s memory. 5. Improves social skills for your child.

A study at Johns Hopkins University states that children who like reading and read books at a young age are not only more likely o become more creative and innovative when they grow up but also inculcate better social skills with their peers. Children will also listen to their peers when they are talking, behave in a nice manner, and understand people’s varying opinions. It also helps the child pay more attention to what other people are saying and listen patiently rather than interrupting. 6. Makes learning easier

Many adults believe that telling their children stories at a young age will deviate them from studying actual education books. Well, we are here to tell you that that is a big myth. Telling stories to your children at a young age is actually a stepping stone towards a bright academic future for your child. There are a few reasons why storytelling helps children become better at their studies. Firstly, children inculcate the habit of reading, regardless of what kind of book it is, they will still have a deepened interest to read constantly. Their speaking, writing, and comprehension skills will also increase. Overall, regardless of the books they are reading, inculcating the habit of reading at a young age can help develop their intellectual skills later on in their lives as they grow up. 7. Happiness Deluxe

A psychology study states that children who read books during their childhood will grow older to appreciate themselves more and are less likely to suffer from any mental illness. Detailing more, children who read create a happy space for themselves in their head which helps them deal with negative discussions, relationships, and scenarios, or even feelings that they might face. It might sound like Latin and Greek to adults but surprisingly, children who read or enjoy storytelling have better ways of coping and dealing with stress than us regular adults or even teenagers who do not read.

Storytelling might be fictional but it can teach young kids so many things about aspects of the world and life itself. It gives them a lot of opportunities to learn and grow, along with inculcating wonderful ideas that they have never encountered before. It will make them more curious thinkers, determined souls, and happy beings overall. They will grow up only to be able to face the world no matter how tough it gets. It might sound dramatic wondering if children can actually behave so boldly by only reading storybooks, involving in storytelling, or reading anything that is fiction. Given the benefits we have provided for you, parents have all the good reasons in the world to spend an adequate amount of time telling stories to their kids to create brighter futures.