Beyond The Trees

Beyond The Trees

Sign Up for Monthly News & Tips
  
 
Archive
Search
Reflections from the Personal Historians at Beyond the Trees
Mar22

Written by:Beyond The Trees
3/22/2009 6:36 PM 

 

Are your kids really listening to the tales of your childhood? Probably so. Two articles published recently in the national press explore the benefits of sharing your family stories.

 

Kirk Semple’s Family Stories as Secret Text for Immigrants (New York Times, March 15, 2009) showed how a classroom assignment – to interview a close relative about their family’s recent history – opened doors to discovery, empathy, and understanding between teenaged children and their immigrant parents.
 
Life Stories: Children Find Meaning in Old Family Tales by Sue Shellenbarger (Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2009) describes how sharing stories passes down values and softens hard times. The article offers tips (such as alluding to - but not overstating - the moral of your tale) and cites a research study where the ability of kids to retell their parents’ stories was linked to lower rates of depression and anxiety. And as Emory University psychology professor Robyn Fivush reassures in the article, “Even when you think your children aren’t listening to your stories, they probably are.”
 
- Jennifer Sauers 
 
Visit Beyond the Trees on Facebook
 

Copyright ©2009 Beyond The Trees LLC

Tags:

Your name:
Your email:
(Optional) Email used only to show Gravatar.
Your website:
Title:
Comment:
Security Code
Enter the code shown above in the box below
Add Comment  Cancel 
 
   
   
  
   
 
 
 Beyond the Trees | info@beyondthetrees.net | Return Policy | Site Map | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Notice 
 Beyond the Trees, LLC - 1776 Mentor Ave - MB 309 - Suite 406 - Cincinnati, OH 45212 - (513) 321-8398 
 Created and Maintained by WSI - Cincinnati | © 2007 - Beyond The Trees, LLC | Login 
 Association of Personal Historians    Better Business Bureau Accredited Business