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Imagination in Story and Tale can heal your kid mentally - for parents, child carers, teachers- explained by child psychologist Anneke van der Meer

I am a Dutch retired child psychologist and wrote in my practice short reading stories and tales for children or the parents to help their young boy or girl to cope with life. I could only help these kids by using their own child imagination. This power enabled me to communicate with them properly, because Tales and children Stories use exactly the same imagination as children do. This is the heart of the matter which I like to share with you by this contributed text, here on TES. You can use it and share it with other parents freely.

It has proven itself for years already in my practice as child psychologist: Imagination & Fantasy are the main healing forces in the young life of our kids. So we can use them in making focused Stories and Fairy tales for our children to support them in coping with life. This method is useful and possible for everybody: for parents, child carers and teachers. I instructued this for many years to parents and carers in my own country the Netherlands by practising this together: making stories and tales focused on the problems of a ki.
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In this text I like to explain how this power of imagination works and how you can use this unbelievable force of fantasy. I present it as a free source for everybody in the world, because also the fairy tales are free. And the famous fairy-tales all over the world possessed this knowledge for many centuries already.

The images of our fantasy have a huge power for children because they use it daily to cope with their personal life. Of course it is the animals who are the stars in the fairy-tales. So you will find them back here in my little stories on TES I wrote for children to help them. To demonstrate this important role of animals in the stories for children, I place here also several of my animal drawings. I made them as illustrations for my own stories. They are an example and illustration of my ideas on the powerful source of imagination and fantasy in stories and in human life.

I hope my written fairy-tales, stories and tales - which I wrote for children and which I share here for free on TES - can become an inspiration for parents, teachers and child-carers. These kind of stories can support and heal our children we care for and love, when we are willing and able to use the language of children imagination, fantasy and imagery.

Once you realize how it works to create a specific story with imagery, useful for your own child, it generates much more pleasure for your kid than the usual ‘talking out the problem’,. But also more pleasure for you as a parent, carer or teacher yourself. Because imagery in a tale works much more stronger as a positive power for your child than talking about the problem. I hope you will enjoy this.

Dutch child-psychologist, Anneke van der Meer // translation, Anne Porcelijn

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Matrozenhof

9 years ago
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I never realized that children think in another way as we adults do. This text convinced me, and later I recognized the same 'power of Imagination and fantasy' in animation movies like the recent beautiful Irish animation film for children: 'Song of the Sea' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgbXWt8kM5Q.

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