Stories of Perseverance
Stories of Perseverance
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 Perseverance . Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Effort and good work
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| Trying hard to do things well is much more satisfying than doing them just to an ordinary standard. | The life of a young puppet-maker | A young puppet-maker, and his puppet |
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There was once a young man who liked puppets so much that he became an apprentice to a master puppet-maker. Sadly, the young man was very clumsy, and his teacher and the other apprentices were always telling him he had no ability...
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Educational Value
- Respect and perseverance
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| There is always a good solution. If we persist in looking for it, we can end up achieving much more than we had envisioned. | A girl’s house and outer space | A girl who plays the drums |
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Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl, a girl with one big ambition - to play the drums in a band. But one big obstacle lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to ...
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Educational Value
- Combat fear of the dark
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| Fear of the dark is not fear of anything real, and can only prevent you from discovering interesting things | the sea | A cockerel, a duck and the mermaids |
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A cockerel and a duck were arguing so much over whether mermaids exist or not, that they decided to settle the matter once and for all, by searching the bottom of the sea. They dived down, first..
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Educational Value
- Effort and joy
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| You can do everything better when you practice with effort and joy | a boy’s bedroom | a boy and his drawing |
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Pinty Tailor was a little boy who enjoyed going to school and doing all sorts of things, except for art and writing. Using brushes and pencils did not come easy to Pinty, so his works of art did not end happily, and he would just...
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Educational Value
- Patience and Perseverance
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| Sometimes we are about to achieve our goals, but give up through lack of perseverance and patience. | A world, planets and space | A fairy and two dragons |
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The Princess of the fairies was ill. The doctors could not find what the problem was, but luckily two little dragons managed to find out what was wrong. The problem was that
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