SEC - S8W3 | What is your favorite children's story and why? | @janemorane

Hello beautiful people!

Today I am going to make my entry in the Steemit Engagement Challenge, Season#8, Week:3. The theme of the contest is very nice because in the childhood we were used to listen to stories and I was totally that night story person so let's begin..

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What is your favorite children's story, why?

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My favourite childhood story is one that my father used to tell us in our childhood. My father was more towards reality and used to tell us stories that give motivation and inspire us to life.

The story that my father used to tell us was that of a little girl who was an orphan living with her grandfather, she used to sell eggs door to door in her village. Slowly and gradually she saved some money and brought one more hen so that she could sell more eggs.

In this way with lots of struggles and hard work she was able to open up her own chicken farm in which she used to sell chicken, eggs and small chicks.

She was now earning a really good amount of money with her work. She renovated her old house and her grandfather was very proud of her. She was alone but her struggle teached her all the good things.

This was my personal favourite because it tells us how girls alone can do a lot, without any support and help she can achieve many things. Whenever my father used to start this story at night, it gave me so much pleasure listening about the little girl's success over and over again.

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Have children's stories taught you anything, marked you or influenced you in your life?

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When I was young we used to live in a village so most of the stories were taught to us by my father and still as grown up I remember each and everything I have learned from those stories. I still don’t know if they were based on true stories or not but I can say that it has played great in building my personality.

Those stories at least for me were the most influential of all and I still admire how brave this little girl was and it motivates me a lot that if she and alot of other girls like her can do it then why not me, this why not is the reason for my success.

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How many children's stories do you remember reading? make a list, enumerate them.

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STORY	MORAL	PICTURE
The king and the ant	Try try again
The clever crab	Nature never changes
The Golden touch	Greed is curse
The tortoise and the hare	Slow and steady wins the race
The crocodile and the monkey	Choose your friends wisely
The boy who always told lies.	Don't lie cause no one will believe you when u actually say the truth.

These are some of the stories I remember from my childhood so far. I have listened to these a lot and maybe that’s why they have stuck to my mind and I still remember them.

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If you have children or younger siblings, have you told them a children's story, which one and why?

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I don’t have younger siblings so I can tell them stories but yes I have some kids in my family and whenever I go there at my grandparent’s house all the children come to me and I tell them stories.

Some stories that I told them had nothing to do with reality but the children love them so sometimes I told them those stories so that they can enjoy them.

One of my favourite stories that I told children most of the time is that of an old man and his 3 sons. The story is actually about unity and strength.

“Once upon a time there was an old man who used to live in a village with his three sons. As he was getting old with time, he got very worried about his children’s unity because they used to fight with each other a lot.

One day he called his sons and gave them a wooden stick and asked them to break it. They broke the wooden stick very easily and then he gave them a bunch of wooden sticks, and asked them to break them all together. All his sons tried one by one but none of them succeeded in doing so.

The father then told them that breaking a single stick was easy to do but breaking all them together is hard and even near to impossible. This gives us a lesson that when you are alone people can break you apart very easily but when united you are stronger and stronger. Unity is the strength of every family and society and this story is my personal favourite. how a simple story explains such a great message.

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Have you created a children's story? Tell us about it.

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Honestly, I am very creative in making such adventurous stories and tales for the children of our family. Whenever I start telling a movie I don’t really know what will be the ending I just start and then my mind builds up the rest of the scenarios.

I don’t really remember the exact story that I have made on my own because as I mentioned earlier I haven’t written any of it, all the scenes come to my mind at the time and never repeat. I think because I have a variety of ideas, scenes and adventures moving around in +my mind at a time and that is why I don’t have any exact story.

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