El arte de contar un cuento

The act of telling a story has always been considered mere children's entertainment. It is actually much more. Through the story we give children a universe from which to interpret and understand the reality that surrounds them, and also the keys from which to understand and interpret themselves. We learn from experience, with successes and errors, appropriate responses or not according to the circumstances. But we can get to these variables from something as simple as a story. A story offers us a universe of characters who face situations to which they react emotionally and, hopefully, also rationally. Difficulties lead them to seek solutions, and those solutions often succeed. Our mind absorbs it with relish because it needs keys that allow us to develop mechanisms of understanding first, of action later, in the face of a complex and changing reality. That is why thought is dynamic and not static, and is primarily narrative. It is important to know what happened, but also who did it and why, and what the result was. Interesting, right? When the child opens his senses to the world, he is faced with a reality that he needs to understand and interpret in order to adapt her behavior to the established social norms, to the expectations created, to the situations experienced. And this is precisely what a simple tale offers to his child's mind. Throughout this book, the keys to understanding how to make the simple act of telling a story become an art are revealed. Something that can change the future of your children, of your students.