The most fascinating activity in childhood is storytelling time. Storytelling builds child’s personality, it helps a child in many ways to develop their abilities.

We all heard so many stories from our parents, grandparents, and teachers. Children are drawn to that person who tells them interesting and fictional stories.

It is the fun part of childhood.

And personally, I loved to listen to stories from my granny and my mom.

Storytelling helps you in many ways to develop your child. Storytelling time itself is a time to connect with your child when you want to spend quality time and want to build a strong relationship with them.

I believe it is the foundation of a child’s personality. Storytelling is a basic way of learning new things and communicating.

Lullaby (lori in Hindi, halarda in Guajarati) and stories are the first steps toward the child’s development and learning process. It is also part of our culture.

Here are 5 ways where you see how storytelling builds child’s personality.

Instils virtues in child

This is the most wonderful impact of storytelling.

Through stories and their characters, child improves their virtues along with cognitive skills.

It will help them in their entire life. They acquire many qualities, even in the future self. Storytelling gives a deep impression in their mind and that’s why it stays in their unconscious mind forever.

You can instill good values through storytelling and the character of stories.

Cultural understanding

Our culture plays a big role in our lives.

Many stories come from our culture which we believe and have faith in it. Cultural stories give them an understanding of our roots.

If you want them to grow in the future as a person which eventually reflects in their personality.

They increase their ethics and virtues that put values in their life.

Pick stories that tell a message of kindness, goodness, ethics, and mercy and you will see the effect in the long run. After all this all reflects in their personality.

 

Enhance language and communication skills

Storytelling is an easy way to introduce new words of language.

Storytelling is a fun way to teach them language.

The different kinds of words and emotions described in the story improve a child’s language.

His curiousness toward the story makes them think about the emotions and behavior of the character.

In this way, their language and communication skills are enhanced which eventually mirrors their personality. They learn to speak earlier as they have frequent contact with a vast vocabulary and can communicate easily.

 

Imagination Enhance Creativity

Children are creative by nature because they have more imagination power than adults. The power of imagination makes the children unique. they can think outside of the box.

If you notice that all the famous people in the world who invent something or famous artists all are creative. They are creative because they can think differently from other people and all the ideas of that creation first come into their mind in their imaginary world.

Children are fast learners, their brains are growing very fast and that is the reason at this time they are very curious about the world around them. When you introduce a story and the characters they start to imagine the whole scene in their mind.

They create an imaginary world at that moment.

This whole process helps them to develop cognitive skills and social skills which helps them to develop their personality.

They learn new things and skills fast. Storytelling creates an amazing world in their imagination and makes them more creative.

They use their imagination in their daily chores and activities. They build their world around that amazing world. You can also be a part of that world by connecting them and you will be amazed by intelligence and uniqueness of your child.

 

Boost memory power

You have noticed that when we see something like a movie or video or anything that is stored in our mind visually, it can be memorized easily and we can remember it for a long time.

The storytelling works exactly the same way.

Their imagination creates a visual scene in their mind. They have seen what they have listened to and created a world through storytelling.

Which stimulates a specific part of the brain which is called the limbic system. The limbic system is connected to memory which means storytelling makes that part of exercise and make it stronger.

This means a child who has spent his childhood between stories has a powerful memory. Memory power makes a child more skilled and intelligent

Become a great Decision-maker

As we say storytelling makes a child’s memory power strong, and at the same time it increases brain power. It stimulates the brain to form an exact scene of the story and creates an exact impact on the body.

That is the reason when you watch a movie or series your brain secrets the hormones according to the scene you watch. that’s why we feel the same pain, happiness, and other feelings while watching.

In the same way, when you narrate a story to your child, they feel the same emotions as the characters.

The copy mechanism of our brain remembers how the characters fought for their rights and how it dealt with the chaos in the story.

All these together signal the brain to memorize the situation and solutions to the problem. So, when a child experiences a similar situation its brain commands faster to solve the problem.

They can see and think out of the box and have a clear vision of their task and activity.  Hence, their decision would be clear and fast automatically.

 

The important factor of storytelling

Type of stories

There are lots of types of stories available.

But when You choose the story to tell you should keep some norms in mind, like the age of your child, his interest, his mood, and especially the story’s content (what that story wants to tell).

Tell them stories according to their mood and the situation. Choose the genre of the story wisely, that connects them with the character, so they can enjoy the storytime.

Narration of the story

The narration of the story is as well important as the story itself.

Your sound should be gentle and calm, and of course, there should be emotions in your voice according to the story. Without good narration, a child gets bored easily and they can not connect with the story.

Time of the story

Time to storytelling is as important as the story and story narration because of its direct effect on the mood of the child.

The best time to tell a story is before bedtime, especially stories with good virtues and teaching ethics.

You can find another convenient time according to your daily schedule that fits.

It often happens that one has to resort to a story to teach something at that time.

So, that is also a good catch-up to narrate

But there is a caution first the child has to be taken into that phase so that he can hear you.

Otherwise, they are unable to connect with the story and storytelling becomes ineffective.

 

Conclusion

There are lots of reasons to tell a story to children.

There are so many benefits especially when your child is at a young age.

Storytelling time is the best time in their childhood and it stays always fresh in their memory because at that time you are with them in their imaginary world and this period, they love the most.

They live that time with only you and that makes it so special.

Bedtime stories calm their mind and directly affect their unconscious mind.

A child’s brain develops in the way you tell the story and it reflects on their behavior and personality.

 

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