Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World

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Elaine Reese (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, University of Otago, New Zealand)

Tell Me a Story

Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World

Elaine Reese (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, University of Otago, New Zealand)

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Oxford University Press Inc
06 June 2013

Psychology; Child & developmental psychology

Family storytelling offers many of the same advantages as book reading - and some new ones - for children's language and emotional development, coping skills, and sense of belonging.

Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World shows parents how telling and sharing stories about family experiences can help children grow into healthy, happy adolescents and adults. Dr. Elaine Reese outlines the techniques that work best with children of all ages, from toddlers to teens, including children with learning delays and difficult temperaments. She also tackles challenging issues such as whether children profit at all from the stories that they experience through TV, movies, and video games; how storytelling differs from daughters to sons; and the best ways to continue to share family stories with children after a separation or divorce. Finally, Reese shares tips specially designed for storytelling with grandchildren, demonstrating how parents can and should continue to nurture family storytelling long after their children are grown, and especially once their children become parents themselves. Providing guidance on a positive, portable, and free way to enrich children's development, Tell Me a Story deserves a place in every parent's library.

By: Elaine Reese (Associate Professor Associate Professor Psychology Department University of Otago New Zealand)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 239mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780199772650
ISBN 10: 0199772657
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 06 June 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elaine Reese is Professor of Psychology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She received her PhD from Emory University and has researched and taught child development in the US and New Zealand for over 20 years. Elaine has 16 years of family storytelling experience with her two children.

Reviews for Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World

Though of interest to academics (but mercifully without much academic jargon), the book's principal audience will be parents, who will find the content practical and accessible. And who can argue with Reese's conclusion, Stories sustain us, they teach us, they protect us, and they join us to others ? Booklist, April 2013