How Storytelling Can Change a Child’s Brain
What if we could improve our children’s brain and development by simply reading to them every day? In this post, we discuss imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more.
Stories are a great way to encourage children to read and use their imagination more. A screenless box allows children to listen to stories and songs without adult supervision needed to operate, giving children more autonomy in their learning. By taking away the screen and visuals from a story, you allow children to use their own imagination during the story-telling experience to create the story as they want to allow them to exercise their creative muscles. This allows children to go from a consuming experience to a creating experience.
Benefits of Storytelling
Children Will Become More Engaging. By having children create their own stories through storytelling, they allow them to be more persuasive and convincing, two great life skills needed later in life. In order to captivate and convince your audience, you need to engage them. A great storyteller is an engaging one and when children practice this at a young age it carries on through out their life.
Better Understanding of The Hero’s Journey. This theme is commonly used in movies, books, TV, and stories. Broken down as such:
1. The hero has a problem
2. The hero overcomes a challenge
3. The hero gets a reward for overcoming this challenge.
When children understand this theme, they’re more likely to use this theme throughout their life, overcoming their problems.
Increased Language and Communication Skills. Storytelling is a great opportunity to increase children’s vocabulary and communication skills by modeling new words and proper sentence structure.