Stories of Self control
Stories of Self control
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 Self control. Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
Educational Value
- Healthy Eating and capricious
Basic elements
| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Teaching how to eat “junk food” sparingly, and not abuse it. | A burger joint | A burger and its consumers |
Story intro
Once upon a time there was a burger who had many lives. Each day she would wake up in the burger bar, and patiently wait her turn to be cooked by the chefs, before being served to...
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Educational Value
- Measure the right amount of things, self-discipline
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| A story to explain the importance of taking things in the proper measure, using the example of medicine.
| A dream | A girl, cough mixture and a strange dream |
Story intro
Just then, hundreds of enormous red balls appeared all at once, and they were so heavy that they could hardly move them. A great chaotic commotion began...
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Educational Value
- Optimism and being positive
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| idea for everyone, to help see the positive aspect in all experiences | A boy's house | A boy and his teacher |
Story intro
Mickey was a nice, cheerful, optimistic boy. No one could remember ever having seen him angry; he didn't mind whatever people said to him. He seemed incapable of insulting anyone. Even his teachers admired his good disposition, which was so unusual that a rumour...
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Educational Value
- Strength and will power
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| Moral of the story | Setting | Characters |
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| Small daily renunciations are what develop strength and will power | A mouse hole | Two mice |
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August Heat was a little city mouse who lived peacefully in a big house. The house had all the comforts any mouse could ever dream of; there was always warm water to bathe in, hot food, plenty of ...
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Educational Value
- Being calm
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| Acting when we are furious or annoyed results in less clever and intelligent actions | A class in a modern school | A teacher, some students and their parents |
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The science teacher, Mr Litmus, had asked his students to study some particular animal. They would write a short report, and tell the rest of the class their conclusions. Some talked about dogs, others about horses, some chose fish. But the most interesting discovery of all was made by little Sophie...
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Educational Value
- Forgiveness, self control and joy
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| A non-scary story about monsters, to tell to little ones on Halloween | Monster world | A girl, several monsters, and letters |
Story intro
A long time ago, most monsters were charming, sweet-toothed individuals. Silly, hairy guys who lived happily in their monster world. They talked and played with kids, and would tell them bedtime stories.
But one day, some monsters had a great big argument...
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Educational Value
- Calm and self control
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| The best thing to do with bullies is ignore them | A bullring | A brave bull, a boy |
Story intro
Rocky was on the patio, crying. Some of his schoolmates had been picking on him, as they did quite often. Nothing upset him more. But no matter how much he told them, shouted at them, or threatened them, they wouldn't stop. An older boy, who had...
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