Stories of Parents
Stories of Parents
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Our stories are a great tool to improve the education of your children and enhance your family atmosphere. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, using pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will discover with them a new way to successfully teach values to children, while enjoying each and every learning minute.
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List including all our stories about Parents . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Doing things with a sense
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| A short reflection to ask ourselves why we do certain things, and how we use our time. | Any modern family | A boy and his father |
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Albert’s father was an extremely important and busy man who worked so many hours that he often had to work whole weekends. One Sunday, Albert woke early and, hearing his Dad opening the front door...
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Educational Value
- Effort and joy, avoid tears
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Children who cry to get what they want are missing out on a lot of great stuff. | Any city | Two boys |
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Teary Joe was a boy with a special ability: he could make himself cry in less than a second. If he disliked something, or things became difficult, or someone contradicted him, Teary Joe would not hesitate to put on a pitiful face...
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Educational Value
- Healthy family life
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| Not only children should get involved in eating more healthily. It is emphasised that the most elaborate, most processed, foods are usually the least healthy | A doctor’s surgery | A girl, her parents, and a doctor |
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Anna Dyatt was driving every doctor in the area mad. Her dad had a belly which he used to open doors with, and her mum was of similar proportions; but Anna was a very slim and svelte girl. Anna had always been very picky about food...
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Educational Value
- Obedience
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| Obeying your parents is the best policy for children | Any modern day setting | Some children in search of a treasure |
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According to legend, Stickybeard was the most sweet-toothed pirate who ever existed. He spent years raiding and pillaging sweetshops, and, so they say, he buried the greatest hoard of treasure any child could imagine, in some forgotten place. So when Tony and his friends found a strange...
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Educational Value
- Obedience
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Parents value obedience the most | A small country, any time period | Various children and their parents |
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Once upon a time, in a small country, people decided to investigate what it was that parents really liked the most. A competition was organised. It would use the latest invention of Professor Crank-Shafte...
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Educational Value
- Passion for reading and imagination
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| A story to help children discover the joys of reading, and the torrent of experience and imagination it releases | A normal house | A boy, his father, and a book |
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Martin was now so old that for his birthday that year his father gave him a book without any pictures in it! Martin's father noticed his disappointment, and told him ...
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Educational Value
- Moderation; restraint
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| Nothing is good when taken to excess | An ordinary family | A boy and an old magnifying glass |
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Once upon a time there was a little glutton who only ate sweets and candy. One day, in an antique shop he found an old magnifying glass. He liked it very much, and his parents bought it for him. He was so happy with his magnifying glass! As soon as he could, he used it to...
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