Story Kingdom: Develop your child's thinking skills and build emotional resilience

Storytelling has been used for millennia to delight and entertain, but it is vastly more than that. Metaphor is the language of the brain. Stories provide patterns and templates through which we make sense of our world and our place in it. Of course, we need data; we need the facts, the numbers....but the data is not the story, it exists to help us tell the story.The approach proposed in these pages understands the power of story and integrates it into the learning process. We live in an age where there are more platforms from which to tell our stories than ever before in human history, along with a plethora of stories competing for our children's attention. It is of vital importance that the stories we tell our children are carefully selected to nurture and nourish them as thinkers, learners and emotionally resilient, happy people. These multi-layered little story gems slip unheeded past the guards at the gates of our rational defences and offer a springboard for developing the thinking tools necessary for navigating the ever more complex social and emotional world our children inhabit. These stories offer to touch hearts and minds and counter the negative, unhelpful patterns in so many of the 'stories' which work their ways into hearts and minds everywhere.