Stories of Patience
Stories of Patience
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 Patience . 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 |
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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
- Patience and wisdom
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| Patience helps to solve problems at the right time, although this sometimes obliges us to endure great pressure.
| A volcanic island | A tribe, a chief and a beast |
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When young Nerino was made chief of the tribe, everyone expected that – as was the custom on the island – he would direct his attention to fighting the great fiery-eyed beast; a horrible creature that had terrorised...
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Educational Value
- Patience
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| Impatience can ruin even the best laid plans. | A long time ago, in a fairytale land | A monster and a wicked man |
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At the deepest depths of the great mountain, in a huge labyrinth of tunnels created by the great wizards, there lived – imprisoned – the worst of beasts, a horrible creature who all knew as Kraton. He had been put there after terrorising...
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Educational Value
- Friendship, companionship, reflect before you act
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| You should think about things before acting impulsively, in order to avoid unforeseen and painful consequences. | A long, long time ago in a land of magic beings | Two elves and a fairy |
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There were once - a long, long, very long time ago; so long ago that not even day and night existed, and upon the Earth there lived only strange and magic creatures – two little elves who dreamed of jumping...
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Educational Value
- Patience and order
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| Before doing things, you need to plan them and have the patience to do them at the right time. | A café and a village | A café and a village |
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Bobby Buns was a very amusing and lively waiter who had his own cafe. He was also very fortunate, because during a visit to his parents' village he discovered that one of the young cows...
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Educational Value
- Perseverance and effort
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| What some highly trained people cannot achieve due to giving up too soon, can be achieved by less trained people who apply persistent effort. | A King’s palace in olden times | The King, a girl, a wizard, and a harp |
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There was once a King who adored music so much that he searched the world for the best instrument there was. One day, a wizard offered the King a harp...
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Educational Value
- Think before you act
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| Instead of jumping into senseless action, we should stand back and apply thought to the best course to take. | The forest | Forest animals and a big block of ice |
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The block appeared in the middle of the forest one morning. It was a huge block of ice, as tall as a tree, as big as a hundred elephants. What's more, it was so cold that no one dared to go near. But what intrigued the animals most...
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