Stories of enthusiasm
Stories of enthusiasm
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
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List including all our stories about enthusiasm. Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Optimism and enthusiasm
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| If we’re forever thinking about the past we can miss the fact that the future can always be better than what went before. | The countryside | A lizard and his tail |
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Johnny the Lizard lived between some rocks out in the country. Like all lizards he loved to quietly sunbathe, laid out on some flat stone. He felt so relaxed doing so...
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Educational Value
- Hope, enthusiasm, goodness
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| The goal of doing good right to the end improves one's attitude to life and is a source of health and hope for those suffering serious illness, whatever the outcome. | A hospital | A boy and a clown |
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There once was a sick child named John. He had a rare and serious illness, and all the doctors confirmed that he would not live long, though they couldn't say exactly how long it would be...
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Educational Value
- Effort and Enthusiasm
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| We appreciate things much more if we made them ourselves with great effort and enthusiasm | Any town | A boy and a rocket |
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There was once a boy whose greatest dream was to have a rocket, and launch it to the moon. Unfortunately, he had little money and couldn't afford one. One day, at the side of a path, he found a box for one of his favourite kinds of rocket. Opening it, he found there...
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Educational Value
- Money management
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| A little money well spent can achieve a lot more than we had imagined, especially if it helps us to learn and develop ourselves. | A family get-together | A girl, her family, and a musician |
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Every month, Julia and her cousins would go for the big family meal at their grandparents' house. They would always wait excitedly for the moment their grandfather would give them a few coins, "so you can buy yourself something." Then all the children would run off to ...
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Educational Value
- Having goals and dreams as motivation
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| We must give ourselves great goals in life, because with effort and perseverance we can achieve even more than we had hoped to. | Any house | A young inventor and his inventor friends |
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The first time Luca heard talk of the Island Of Inventions, he was still very young, but the wonders he heard about sounded so incredible to him that they were forever engraved in his memory. Ever since he was a little boy, he never stopped searching for clues to investigate. Clues which might lead him to...
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Educational Value
- Tidiness
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| All things require a minimum of order, although that doesn’t prevent the order from being applied with imagination | A modern palace | Bristles, his grandfather, and a chess set |
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Brian Bristles was an artistic kind of a boy. He looked at everything as though it were a beautiful painting, and, in the blink of an eye, he could paint anything at all, filling it with magic and colour. One day, Brian and his grandfather went to
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Educational Value
- Hope when facing the death of loved ones
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| A tender, happy story with a positive approach to the deaths of loved ones | A grandfather’s house | A grandfather and his grandson |
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Charlie could not remember how many times he had heard his grandpa tell this story:
"Everyone's soul," said Grandpa, "is like a fidgety bug. It is always looking about, trying to be happier; more content. Have you noticed that? All this wanting
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