Children need their own imaginations, so it's good to be told stories. We don't need TV fairy tales because they show everything. One of the problems of our time is that we always get everything ready - the storyteller Józsefné Csaba Józsefné from Bonyhádvarasd told vasarnap.hu, a retired kindergarten teacher.
Who lives in the world of fairy tales. Recently, the XXV. He received the Jubilee Grand Prize at the Székely Storytelling Competition in Bukovina. He has been telling fairy tales for a quarter of a century, and he tries to teach the Székely tales from Bukovina to members of the youngest generation as well.
I worked as a kindergarten teacher, so I know from experience that it is not easy to pass on old fairy tales to children, he told the newspaper.
Fairy tales are a good way to guide youth. Samples and values can be presented to them. Moreover, the fairy tale is even good for the fact that if there is a current problem, you can find an answer woven into that fairy tale. For example, if someone has done something naughty, the story can be used to relieve anxiety and tension in children.
The young people can learn from the story that they should only tell the truth and behave righteously.
There is no point in living a life full of distractions. This is what the fairy tale can convey to even the smallest children.
A lot can be shaped through storytelling in youth, which is why I think it is important to have storytelling opportunities and competitions where children can also have a say. Fairy tales offer solutions to life's problems, they give encouragement to the difficulties of everyday life.
Everything has to be explained to the children, who ask questions on their own about what they don't understand. Our job is to answer their questions and keep them open and honest.
Children need their own imaginations, so it's good to be told stories.
We don't need TV fairy tales because they show everything. One of the problems of our time is that we always get everything ready.
Parents often become complacent and turn a blind eye to the fact that fairy tales broadcast to young people are particularly aggressive. Aggressiveness feeds on fear. Exactly what oral stories can solve when told to children. For parents and teachers, the real treasure is the fairy tale, with which the children's vocabulary and imagination continuously develop. If children also start telling stories, then enormous results can be achieved in many other areas.
In the past, there were 100-110 applicants for a story-telling competition, but now, unfortunately, we can be happy if 30-40 people come from the entire county. The children and those from whom one could still learn the old Székely speech and tales have run out. However, to my great joy, I always have little students with whom we can prepare for the storytelling competitions.
Perhaps the secret is that you should always do what you love. You have to choose a workplace where you can fulfill yourself. A high salary and a good career alone do not necessarily make a person satisfied and happy. I worked as a kindergarten teacher in a small village in Tolna county, but this was the greatest happiness for me. No matter what problems or problems I had, when I entered the kindergarten gate to meet the children, I forgot all my sorrows.
I would never have gone on strike to be given more money.
This attitude was not characteristic of our generation at all. We, the teachers at that time, wanted to be role models for the youth. They are those who retain their childlike honesty and pure-heartedness. If we have achieved this, then they can no longer spoil anything after leaving the school desk. Dealing with children is always instructive. Man completely reevaluates his place and role, and I can say without any exaggeration that under the influence of children's laughter and fairy tales, the problems and troubles of the world do not seem so big and insurmountable.
Source and image: vasarnap.hu/Gábor Tóth
