Stories of Happiness
Stories of Happiness
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 Happiness . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Generosity and avoid materialism
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| We often accumulate money to acquire things to make us feel better, but sharing time and money with others brings us more happiness. | A far off land | A King and a farmer |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a wise King who worriedly observed the great importance everyone gave to money. This despite the fact that in his country there were no poor people and everyone lived quite well.
-"Why so much insistence on making money?"...
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Educational Value
- Celebrate the true values of Christmas
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Trying to rescue Christmas from modern-day materialism | A present-day Christmas | The Three Wise Men, Father Christmas, toymakers, and a boy |
Story intro
That year, the Christmas Present Conference was full to overflowing. In the audience were all the toymakers in the world, and many others who weren't toymakers, but who had lately come to be...
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Educational Value
- Humility and homeliness
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Happiness is not to be found in the showy and sophisticated things in life, but rather in the right way to approach life and live it. | A faraway kingdom | Two princesses and a key |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a kingdom with an ancient prophecy that spoke of a Princess without a palace. The prophecy said that as soon as that Princess found her palace, she would be the wisest and fairest Queen there had ever been. That kingdom had a royal family who had lived in a beautiful palace for generations. But there was a great...
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Educational Value
- Avoid to feel envy
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Many of those who seem to have so much, in fact have the least. So it’s best not to envy them. | Christmas time at home, and the North Pole | A boy and Father Christmas |
Story intro
Danny was very disappointed with Father Christmas. He was a very good boy, but it really annoyed him, each year, to see most of the other children - who clearly behaved worse than him - being given more presents. He complained so much that, one night
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