Give Your Child Books From Your Childhood
The books of your childhood served to turn you into the woman you are, because believe it or not, they helped to form your character, your way of seeing life, of analyzing and facing your problems.
The books you went to sleep with sparked the imagination that made you be as positive, joyful, and creative as you are. They taught you, educated you and trained you.
So don’t deprive your child of such fantastic stories as the ones you grew up with. Tell him about them and if you have the opportunity to acquire them or you still have the volumes, give them to him without hesitation. That he knows that within children’s literature there is a whole world of adventures and fantasies to discover, which can be his, as his mom was one day.
What the books teach
Children’s stories are a didactic tool through which various knowledge can be transmitted to a child. Likewise, they serve for the development of their articulated language and their communication in general, placing special emphasis on providing the necessary resources so that they learn to know the letters, read, interpret, listen, expand their vocabulary and make their own the various meanings that a letter has. same word.
Children’s stories also serve to reinforce learning, teach new knowledge and transform children’s thinking. They arouse interest, curiosity and imagination. They instill values such as humility, gratitude, honesty; rules of courtesy such as being gentle with others and good manners.
They are important for the development of emotional intelligence in childhood since the child assimilates the feelings of the characters in a story before the various events that happen to them.
With them he learns to identify emotions hitherto perhaps unknown to him such as hatred and greed, feelings that although they are not encouraging at all, he must know them because sometime he will have to face them. In the same way, he runs into questions such as birth and death and what each of them means.
The children’s literature with which you grew up can show your child that we are all different, but not because we are different should we be discriminated against. He is going to teach him various morals such as that “bad guys always end badly.” It helps you overcome your fears and trust your abilities until you are more confident.
If you give your child books from your childhood, you are sharing part of your past with him and you will become the promoter of a love that can last a lifetime: the love of reading.
Mom, you should keep in mind that the fantastic endings of children’s stories make a child happy. They teach him that even when there are obstacles that stand in the way, when a person is capable of striving and not losing hope, he can achieve his goals and win.
Books from your childhood to give to your child
Following the same idea of the importance of children’s literature for a child and also relying on the books and stories of yesteryear, we end this article with a short list of stories that you should buy and give to your child. Many of them surely also belong to the list of books from your childhood.
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Elisa the list
- The ugly Duckling
- Alice in Wonderland
- The Tin Soldier
- Juan without fear
- Bambi
- Thumbelina
- The three Little Pigs
- Jack and the magic beans
- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Ali baba and the forty thieves
- The emperor’s suit
- Cinderella
- The hare and the Tortoise
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Ant and the Grasshopper
- The three daughters of the king
- Pinocchio
- Peter Pan
- Wild swans
- The cat with boots
- Sleeping Beauty
- Bremen Town Musicians
- Hansel and Gretel
- Sinbad the Sailor
- The brave little tailor
- Goldilocks
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- The king midas
- The Jungle Book
- The Wizard of Oz: Mother Goose Tales
- Rapunzel
- Gulliver’s Travels
