I’m over at Sally Cronin’s wonderful blog this week, sharing a post from my archives about family history. Sally and I would love for you to pop over and have a read and share your thoughts.
This is the second post from the archives of educator and storyteller Norah Colvin and this week Norah shares her own experiences of telling real stories about family to young children, not just their immediate family but passing on living history about those relatives we have met but the younger generation may not have.
Whose story is it anyway by Norah Colvin
Children love stories. They love being read stories and beg for them to be read, over and over again.
Equally as much, if not more, they love being told stories, especially stories of their own lives. They beg for them to be told over and over, listening attentively and with wonder as their own stories (her story and his story) are being revealed. They commit these tales to memory so that eventually it is difficult to distinguish the genuine experiential memory from the telling. Even as adults they…
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Fabulous post Norah 🙂 x
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Thanks, Debby. 🙂
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This is a good series from Sally. I’ll drop in.
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Thanks so much, Jacqui, and for your comment over there. 🙂
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I so enjoyed this, Norah!
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Thanks, Jennie. 🙂
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You’re welcome, Norah. 🙂
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Thanks for boosting Norah…hugs
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My pleasure, Sally. 🙂
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Great post, Norah. I comment on Sally’s blog.
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Very nice and civil way to share history Norah, we had to regurgitate useless facts which made it dead boring …
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