Do You Remembet Someone Telling You Story?
Rebecka Vigus
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Storytelling is a lost art. It got lost among all the new technology. But it is not a forgotten art. Grandparent still do it if you are willing to listen. Maybe you are a grandparent and want to tell a story. It's much easier than you would think.
What's a story you remember from your childhood? One you asked for over and over? Mine was the teeny time woman. It's an old story about a woman who is teeny tiny and so is her house. She goes for a teeny tiny walk one day and finds a teeny tiny tea pot with no lid. She picks it up and takes it home. She cleans it up and has a lid that fits perfectly. She goes to bed that night and hears a voice saying, "Give me my tea pot." At first the voice is barely above a whisper. The second time the voice is louder, more demanding, "Give me my tea pot." This time she pulls the covers up to her chin and tries to go back to sleep. Just as she thinks it a dream a loud voice shouts, "GIVE ME MY TEA POT!" She sits up in bed and screams, "TAKE IT!" She pulls the covers over her head and goes back to sleep.
All you need is to spend a little time going over it until you know it well enough to tell it. Or maybe you already have one. If your grand children are small enough, read them a book. There are millions of good children's books out there. My favorite children's book, especially for boys between eight and ten, when they think they are too old to be read to is The Biggest Bear by Lynn Ward. About a young boy whose found a bear cub and wants to raise him. It's full of all the trouble a growing bear and a young boy get into.
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If you tell stories or read to children very young, you instill in them a love of reading. You can start reading to a baby as early as two months old. Start with the old Mother Goose nursery rhymes. Work your way to Dr. Seuss as they become toddlers. Invent stories with you grandchild in which the lead character has their name. When they ask you to tell it again, tell them a different story about the main character. The old fairytales need to be read to them long before you stick them in front of the TV with "snacks" and the DVD player to see the Disney or Pixar rendition of the fairytale. When it's a story that is told to them or read to them they remember it and they understand it's a story. On the other hand, if they have no idea what a story is, they can easily be convinced the movie is real. It won't matter if it's animated. It becomes real.
If you invent stories, write them down. They make great keepsakes to give them at high school graduation, or the birth of their first child. They stories you tell now become the connection to the generations who come after you.
I first heard The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling when I was about 11. We were staying in a home near Glen Lake in Northern Michigan. The elderly couple who owned the house rented it out to families for a couple weeks at a time in the summer. Mr. And Mrs. Snell who owned the house had a smaller house behind it. They moved into the smaller house. The first week we were there we got some rain. She came and asked if the children could come and visit for an hour. So, we did. She had milk and cookies and told us a story. She had us look out her big picture window into the woods and told us to pretend it was a jungle. She was going to tell us a story by a famous man named. Rudyard Kipling. She showed us the book, but never opened it. She spun the story if Mogli and all the other characters, and I could see them in my mind running through her jungle. Mom and Dad came back to get us just as she was finishing the story. It was all my siblings and I talked about during dinner. It has stayed with me all these years. I own the Just So Stories by Kipling. Maybe I can share them with great grandchildren some day. I shared other stories with my grandchildren.
If you you are interested in storytelling and preserving your stories for future generations, send me a message on linked in or contact me on my website https://www.rebeckavigus.com I have a storytelling workshop coming up. #storytelling #writing #legacywriting Photo by Midjourney and my brain.
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10 个月My grandfather was a great story-teller and his favorite story was the first 5 years of his life. I think he remembered it as the only time in life when he was free from worry and responsibility. He had been a sickly child and that allowed him to avoid working in the fields with his parents. He would run outside all day and come home when his parents came back from the field. My roots are typical of a family of serfs from the Ottoman empire. Hard working folk caught up in border wars of old Europe. Death was common in those days, and by the time he was 10 he had many brothers and sisters through marriage as first one parent died and remarried and then the other did. It was a different time. People came together to survive and dragged their children with them. My grandfather came to Canada to escape the Second Boer War at the turn of the 20th century. He became a printer, writing the news of the day for German-speaking people who had come to the new world. This is a story that I'd heard a thousand times and is part of my DNA - literally and figuratively. It's given me a link with my past and a sense of where I belong in the chain of history. I love you're encouraging people to capture their stories Rebecka!