Tales and children are inseparable. Listening to tales is one of the most favorite activity for children. Tales are the very powerful media for children development because they create children’s imagination which let them to dream about things they have never seen before. So, children have lots of fun and joy when listening to tales told by their parents. Besides providing children an opportunity to widely learn about things around them, telling tales is also an activity that stimulate children to have many more imaginations such as:
• Telling tales to children enables them to visualize connections of things via the pictures they see and the voices they hear. This helps them to learn names of things such as human, animals, objects, and trees that appear in the tale. Altogether, they can gain their good linguistic and listening skills.
• Encourages imagination and creativity. The children like tales that specially encourages them to have more imagination. This is evident when children imploringly ask their parents to tell the same tale repeatedly without felling bored.
• Inspires children to become smart and good persons as the characters of the tale they like and impressed.
• Tales bring enjoyment that make children stay focused and continually listen to the story. So, listening to tales is another way to unawarely practice meditation for children.
• Tales telling by parents for their children will help to create love and connection within the family because warm laps and soft tone of parents’ voices mean a lot to children. These things make them feel warm and happy because children want love and close relationship from parents more than listening alone.
Therefore, parents should support children to create their imagination by tales telling, talking, or asking questions that encourage them to think, try to play imaginary roles, and create their own tales. By doing these things, our children will have good development in language, thinking, and imagination. Altogether, the love and warmth within the family will be greatly strengthened.
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