Stories of Obedience
Stories of Obedience
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 Obedience . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Patience and obedience
Basic elements
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| When patience is necessary, impatience can drive us to make bad decisions. | A school in the country | A boy, his teacher, and a sunflower |
Story intro
There was once a teacher who gave his pupils some seeds so they could plant, and look after, their very own sunflower. One boy in the class, who loved sunflower seeds...
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Educational Value
- Obedience and prudence
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| A tender story that will help us to remember how a child should behave when they are lost. | A forest and a cave | A hummingbird |
Story intro
The little blue hummingbird felt sad and tired. He had become lost while traveling with his family, who were looking for a warmer place to spend the winter. When night came, after much time spent looking for them...
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Educational Value
- Effort and sacrifice
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| A metaphor about good posture for children, looking at possible future consequences of too much comfort. | A forest | A labourer and a forest |
Story intro
There was once a forest made up of tiny trees that were all growing up together. They had been planted by a very old labourer who took care that they would all grow up to be straight and healthy...
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Educational Value
- Teamwork, order and obedience
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| Organisation and following rules, allows collaboration to achieve great things. | The countryside | An ant and his anthill |
Story intro
Once upon a time, there was an ant who was fed up with being an ant. She didn't enjoy it at all: the rules seemed overly strict, she was tired of having to wait in really long queues...
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Educational Value
- Obedience. Good influencers
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| It’s much harder to undo an unwise act than it is to act wisely right from the start | A fountain | Drop of water, and a jar |
Story intro
There was once a jar of fresh, clean water. Every drop of water in the jar felt immensely proud of being so clear and pure. Day after day they would congratulate each other on how ...
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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 |
Story intro
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
- The joy of goodness
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| A pervasive negative atmosphere can be dispelled by the presence of one infectiously cheerful individual | A depressed land | A boy |
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There was once a truly miserable land where everyone was depressed. There was no reason for this to be so: the people were normal, and they led normal lives, but...
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