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“World Storytelling Day originated in Sweden and has since spread worldwide,” Zsolt Pintér, president of the Világszárny Hungarian Folk Storytellers’ Association, told Magyar Nemzet. From Mexico to the United States and Asia, World Storytelling Day is celebrated everywhere on March 20.
The aim of the commemoration is to promote oral storytelling and the sharing of stories across generations. Each year, there is a theme around which the celebration is built; this year’s is “Light in the Darkness.”
Hungarian folk tales, especially fairy tales, connect particularly well with this theme. In these tales, the protagonist gets lost in a dense, dark forest—a classic fairy-tale setting—and when they catch sight of the light, they find hope and make their way out of the forest. But this year’s theme can also be viewed from a broader perspective: in the complexity and difficulties of the 21st century, what is it that can offer light and hope? In our increasingly fast-paced lives, which have shifted into the virtual world, storytelling, for example, can be a source of light where social connections are reestablished.
Fairy tales play a very important role in children’s lives, as confirmed by countless pedagogical and psychological studies. The stories read aloud or told from memory to young children have a powerful impact on emotional intelligence, creativity, and thinking, said Zsolt Pintér.
Reading stories helps shape a child’s verbal skills, expands their vocabulary, improves their comprehension, and enhances their conversational abilities, while also playing a key role in developing their memory.
Children who are read to during early childhood are thirty times more likely to become readers as adults than those who are not. Those who are not read to as young children have only a few percent chance of becoming readers as adults.
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It is even worth reading poems to a fetus in the womb. With the help of books designed for specific age groups and usable from just a few weeks of age, a child can gain a one-and-a-half to two-year head start over their peers by the time they start school, writes Móra.hu. This is confirmed by Pintér, who added that for a very young child—even an infant — it is obviously not the content of the story that matters, but the time spent with the parent, the soothing voice of the adult, and the loving atmosphere when mom or dad holds the child in their lap, rocks them to sleep with a song, plays lap games with them, or recites nursery rhymes.
When a young child watches a story on television, they are presented with ready-made images—they see what the prince, the villain, the wolf, or the dense, dark forest looks like—whereas when stories are told aloud, the child creates their own mental images.
Of course, we often hear parents worry about whether it is okay to tell the story to their child exactly as it was written—for example, whether it is okay to tell the story of The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats, where after the wolf eats the little goats, they cut open the wolf’s belly, stuff it with large stones, and then throw it into a well.
“Children do not actually see these images as if they were watching TV; they only imagine them, which is nowhere near as terrifying, frightening, or horrific as we parents think it is. A child’s imagination is the safety net itself. Another important point is that the villain receives his just punishment, and the story ends with redemption, which brings great relief to the child’s soul. Most fairy tales, including Hungarian folk tales, are like this; they impart very important moral lessons,” said Pintér.
Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured photo: Pexels
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