The story and its impact on the child's mindset

There are still wonderful visions in our imagination, and there are people in them of magic, heroism and strength. And the meanings of good, evil, ugliness, beauty, truth and virtue are still measured against that old standard that was formulated by the bedtime story.

The old story is still the child's Preferable world, he finds magical pleasure in the world of green forests, colorful roses and palaces of ancient kings .. And its heroes of rabbits, foxes, and fairies of lamps reveal to him about a form of relations between beings and nature. And the relationship of creatures Each other, which develops the ability to understand the reality around him.

Research in the close relationship between old tales and the psyche of the young is very important, as these tales have an impact on the young people's beliefs and views of things in the real world that he lives with his parents and peers.

He learns from her heroes, Relax for happy ends, the meaning of loss and death is disturbing when the story embodies it.

What should we do in order to turn the world of the non-reality in the story into a positive world? From which the young learns the values and principles of  the society in which he lives and accepts reality and faces its difficulties.

When we discuss the story, we must confirm that building the best educational curricula-method and content- depends essentially on the nature of those individuals who will receive it, or aims to educate them.

Therefore, the breeding method of parenting towards the young must take into account the characteristics associated with each time age. And then take into account the individual characteristics when dealing with their own children, and these characteristics are related to the aspects of growth and its various fields.

These characteristics must be recognized, then analyzed, and the requirements for guidance or development traceable, and then the practical translation of the general concepts and their contents.

Fantasy is the (kids) food to see reality

Among the characteristics of early childhood, children resort to imagination and invention, and this may lead to a kind of conflict between truth and imagination. Children want to unleash their imagination, while adults resort to pushing them to learn the truth and relate to reality.

In order to avoid the continuation of this conflict and the possibility of its negative consequences. We resort to finding situations in which the two meet, the imagination and the reality. And a distinction is made between them in a way that does not nullify the imagination, and then it can be directed to the right direction. For example, (the Fingertip) the story that tells the child that no matter how difficult and complicated things seem, you have to face them.

You will not grow up and learn unless you leave your home and encounter dangers in the world around you, which I mean is the necessity of recommending to the young person the ability to distinguish between reality and imagination so as not to reach the cause of compatibility issues later.

Youngsters' cognitive abilities grow using storytelling

But, does the child need to use the imagination method in order to develop and grow an innovative ability? And does not that count his role in obscuring the facts from the child?

With regard to the use of the imagination method and its role in (blocking facts) from the eyes of young people, it is the age level of development that determines the type of these (facts), as many experiences that we can refer to (in advanced levels) are not suitable for children in the first stage of life, Hence, using imagination is a better way to give them experience.

Perhaps the best uses are in fairy tales that adults weave to match their purposes. Or some young people weave it either as an imitation of adults or to drop their questions or concerns. And the responses of young people to these stories differ according to the culture in which they are established. And any culture may not be free of some Fictional stories associated with fictional creatures.

The story and socialization

Some of those fairy tales may be an effective means in the process of socialization. Which includes using some imaginary characters as effective methods of discipline and politeness. And regardless of the exaggerations sometimes, these characters are the stories of ogres, giants, evil demons and others.

And the stories on the other hand may embody some of these characters by using some masks or wraps. Or children will drop some of their characteristics to realistic characters such as: the policeman who will arrest him and place him in a dark room full of many mice. And other characters that the child can actually see in reality, but he is ignorant of its true role.

Imagination becomes negative when a young person watches on television, for example, another role for the policeman mentioned in the story. And becomes confused between what adults say in their stories and what he sees is in reality.

Deterrence stories

But, is it only used by parents to use stories of deterrence with an intimidating character as a tool to control behavior and direct children to conform to acceptable social behavior?

It is not possible to say with a specific answer whether yes or no, but sometimes they resort to it to occupy the free time of children or distract them. And there is a possibility that they resort to it as a kind of dropping their fears in the form of stories with a specific goal that deserves to be told to their young children.

We conclude from this that fairy tales are not in themselves an intense evil, but rather something that is necessary for childhood and poor guidance in (method or content) that leads to negative results, as the use of fairy tales by fictional creatures may lead to giving the child Severe fears.

The child is afraid of either a real danger, or a danger he learned from these tales. Or a danger from phenomena that he does not understand, such as lightning and thunder or death. So if this unknown is accompanied by a fearful experience, this leads to a long-term impact.

The necessity of fiction

And if we exclude these frightening stories, this does not mean that we exclude all fairy tales, and we cannot always attach evil to the jinn and the orcs. There are stories associated with characters from the jinn, but they were not linked to real evils such as the genie of the Aladdin lamp.

The child’s resort to the interpretation of natural phenomena that they occurred for the sake of man. And by those like him of beings with tremendous powers such as jinn (makes us) not lose sight of the impact of such stories and how to use them. So one of the famous psychologists asked his little girl .. who dug the sea? She told him a (large genie) in the form of a person!

That is why children often perceive the jinn as a person with distinct characteristics and superior capabilities. Imagination is necessary and it is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the tales of the young children.

The psychological characteristics of the story

There are psychological features that characterize literary works that have received wide acceptance from children in their early stages of life. Whereby young children in their early childhood times accept these stories or tales that express the idea of loss, deprivation or loneliness.

As the child finds during the cradle the event of the absence of his mother and then returns to him. And the mother in relation to the child is the physical and emotional protection. And the happiness of the child is repeated whenever the mother returns to him and reinforces his desire to return protection.

Facing difficult life

And that desire for the return of protection remains inherent in the child's subconscious, and it grows with him throughout his life, and appears in happiness when the return of something dear to him or person.

The imagination of the return of the lost is one of the child's fantasies of the Ouedipi stage. But, is not the loss of parents and the loss of children in the stories of the jinn and the alien beings troublesome for the little ones?

There is no doubt that the greatest difficulty faced by the young person lies in the abandonment of his family by any image such as death or divorce, for example. And after research, the stories of the jinn are very much concerned with the pain of the young and their suffers of deprivation.

And if death was common in the old days at birth, which caused the presence of children suffering orphans, divorce at this time-which is inferior to death in order-causes children to face a kind of unknown fate, and the result is almost the same, which is the suffers from anxiety.

But, the fairy tales do not eliminate the difficulty in these crucial matters for children and do not tell them: "Do not care about things". But, it says and assures them that it is terrible and great matters, but do not despair. Go out into the world and face its problems and you will succeed in overcoming many obstacles. Just relying on yourselves without your fathers, though you have always been skeptical of that ", it magically links them to reality!

How do we write the story?

The story should present a specific idea or one simple topic that is related to the experiences of daily life and reflects a simple imagination. And the story must advance in one path without including secondary subcategories.

The scene of the story's events must also be a specific place, such as a forest, a large palace or a school, and it is better for the time-story area to be short, and other details (historical and geographical) are listed in a quick introduction, and it is preferable that the number of characters be few. But, on condition that it be distinct and convincing.

It remains to say that when the little one tells you a dream that he saw or foretells you that he is suffering about a problem that seems very difficult for him, you should not talk directly to him about that, but tell him: Come .. we will tell you a story!