Did you know that stories are a playful and kind way to deal with difficult situations in childhood and adolescence? Download the story "The Lion and the Piglet" and catch the attention of the scoundrel to talk about emotions.
The story prepared by the Espai Terapèutic team to accompany a child tells the story of a lion who, due to his anger, shows disruptive behavior at school. Narrative therapy helped him understand his emotions in order to improve his relationship with his colleagues. Through a fun and relatable plot, created by the child himself, little readers learn to:
- Recognize their emotions: The story helps to identify the anger and other emotions they experience, such as frustration or sadness.
- Understand the consequences of his actions: The lion learns that his anger causes him problems with his friends. So they can understand that their actions have repercussions.
- Develop skills for living with anger: The story presents healthy strategies for handling anger, such as calming down before acting out and seeking help when needed.
What is narrative therapy?
People use language continuously, not only to communicate, but also to think, remember or learn from experiences. In this type of therapy, language is the protagonist, because it gives the boy or girl a sense of the events that have happened to them, and helps them understand emotions and sensations to develop an adaptive and healthy life story.
Through this technique, used in trauma therapy, the therapist accompanies the child to reinterpret his story of life, past, present or future in order to make it a more digestible and friendly narrative for the child.
These reformulated narratives provide a meaningful and positive learning context, as well as recognizing difficult emotions and modulating their behavior towards others. When choosing this technique, it is very important to use elements with which the child can see himself reflected, to facilitate that he is completely immersed in the story.
Construïu els vostres propis contes!
We invite you to create your own stories and illustrations to talk about everyday emotions and learning. If you choose the protagonist of your story well, involvement with the character will help with the aim of reinterpreting the child's experiences. You can start with this story about the lion, the result of a therapeutic process with a child who chose and participated in the creation of his own story to learn about anger and the relationship with other children.
How to use the story?
Emotions in early childhood, and also in adolescence, can be a big challenge both at home and in educational settings, due to the fact that children are in an evolutionary stage of learning about emotions, behavior, and relationships with others In this sense, resources like this story can be a very useful tool to accompany them in their learning.
- Start conversations about emotions: The story can serve as a starting point for open conversations about children's emotions, how they feel, and what they can do to manage them in a hasty manner.
- Teach social skills: Storytelling can help children learn to communicate effectively, resolve conflicts, and build positive relationships with others.
- Promote understanding and empathy: Storytelling can help children understand other people's perspectives and develop empathy for their feelings.
- Formulating questions and a new approach: being able to lead to healthier doubts, instead of saying why has this happened to me?, being able to ask what do we learn about this situation?
Download the story and help them deal with their anger healthy!
