Telling stories to children!!

Children love listening to stories. I doubt you'll find anyone more hungry for stories, and I'm sure you'll love satisfying their hunger.


If you've begun your storytelling career with adult audiences, however, you need to be alert to new demands on your technique and on your repertoire.


Quick Feedback-And Its AbsenceThe biggest difference between child audiences and adult audiences is that young children let you know immediately how you're doing. If you're not connecting with them, they squirm, interrupt, or get up and leave. If you're succeeding, they settle in to a comfortable position and gaze at you in rapt adoration. With feedback like that, it's much easier to change direolescent audiences, however, may not give feedback. For many of them, to be "coolction or hold the course, as needed.


Older elementary and ad " means to hide all expressions of enthusiasm. Don't expect them to make an exception on your account until they know and trust you. But don't be fooled by their studied indifference, either. Adolescents are as hungry for storytelling as preschoolers; they just don't dare to show it the way youngsters do, and don't yet know how to show it the way adults do.


Repetition and ListeningMost young children need to hear a story many times in order to master it cognitively and emotionally. Be prepared to provide the necessary repetition, especially if you will see children more than once. Just as adults may come up to you after a performance to tell about their own experiences, children need and want to share back with you. But children often have less ability to wait until the end to do their sharing - and the more you've touched them, the more urgently they may need to tell you about it. So it may be up to you to find ways for them to tell their stories and reactions. You might try:

1.a making-up-verses participation song

2.a structured storytelling opportunity with a partner

3.a time after your storytelling when you sit and listen.

Kids and puppies

Kids and puppies are a wonderful combination if the children are educated about and prepared to have a pup. If children don't know how to properly treat a young dog, one or both may become seriously injured. Here are some tips on how to accustom your children and puppy to one another.



* Read easy-to-understand books about puppy care, safe handling, and dog behavior to your children prior to getting a puppy. Discuss what you have read with your children.



* Demonstrate how to properly handle a young pup by using a stuffed toy dog. Have your children practice with the toy animal.



* Have a family meeting and set the ground rules for bringing up pup. Children need to agree to follow these rules before and after puppy comes home.



* Make puppy his own little home-within-a-home as a safe haven. Involve children in setting-up this space. Pick a warm, comfortable location for puppy's crate. Enclose an area around it with an exercise pen or cardboard, and line the area with newspapers. Place pup's toys, bowls and bed in this area.



* Keep very young children and puppies separated. ALWAYS supervise small children and puppies. Be sure that older children are treating the puppy appropriately.



* When pup and kids meet for the first time, it should be done in a calm manner. An adult can hold the puppy while children slowly and quietly approach and allow the pup to smell the back of their loosely closed fist. Then they may gently pet him.



* Children must not be allowed to hurt or roughly handle a puppy. Don't allow them to pinch or poke the puppy or pull pup's tail or ears. Be careful not to let them step on or drop the pup, or to squeeze him too tightly. And never tease or torment him.



* Never let a child hit a puppy.



* Puppies may be afraid of squealing, yelling, running stomping children. Keep pup in his space when they are playing, or have them play quiet games when pup is out.

Computers for kids

Our children's lives are already getting influenced by technology and this is just the beginning. Computers and Internet are here to stay and software titles targeting young children continue to increase. Computer science is has become a compulsory subject in Indian schools. Today, We find computers in use everywhere, whether we go to reserve a train ticket or to a Bank. This is because it is faster and helps us complete our work without mistakes/errors. So Parents too have realized the need to help their children develop strong computer skills.


Children are learning to read and write with computer games instead of homemade flash cards. They are reading their bedtime stories online instead of in bed with their parents. Slowly traditions are being broken and the computer is becoming a child’s learning tool. Many parents are buying computer learning games instead of board games and pop-up books.


Parents are leaving the learning up to the computers and spending less quality time with their children. The most important learning step for children is interaction with others. If they are sitting in front of the screen all day, they do not learn to share, wait their turn, or even something as simples as manners. Children need to be in contact with other children, adults, and animals. They need to experience things first hand not off a computer screen.


When children log on to the computer their innocence is noticeable. Children are an easy target for adults who pose to be other children with similar interests. Sexual offenders often chat online with children and then make plans to meet them or slowly filter information about them.Children are innocents and honesty on the computer can pose some huge problems. They do not know any better and usually it will only harm them in the end.


One benefit of the computer age is that children are becoming smarter. They are growing up computer literate and will have that as a huge advantage. Computer literacy is becoming a huge job qualification and feeling comfortable with one will put them a step ahead.


Children will also be able to complete homework on line. In some places, if you miss school you can find out the assignments that you miss and catch up. This is very helpful if your child comes down with the flu, but do you want them to feel like it is okay to miss school because they can catch up with their computer?


Overall, children can benefit from computers if they are used wisely. Parents that supervise their children when they are on the computer can ensure that everything is happening safely.


Computers are the wave of the future, but old fashioned learning techniques should not be forgotten. A child needs to interact physically with other people and not learn everything from computers.

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