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Kirilandia- Useful material for parents: free children's stories about the coronavirus and confinement
They say it is an evolutionary matter, that we need stories not so much to entertain ourselves as to survive. That stories serve us when we are children for much more than just hanging out: to conjure fears, to learn that others before crossed the same forests plagued by traps and monsters that haunt us either at home or at school. Sometimes the ominous forests are our shyness, our insecurity, the fear of rejection, the need to belong, to be loved, to be cared for and accepted. Sometimes they are material and concrete problems: gym class, reading, recess, the relationship with the new brother who moves us, the bicycle that we cannot master ... But forests and monsters exist everywhere and always, also the ways to make them ours through books and stories. From the paintings in the Altamira caves until today, the human being counts to overcome difficulties, to evolve, to understand others and himself. Narrative is our most precious survival mechanism as a species.
But what if a child does not like stories? What happens when we get bored? Where can a new habit come from, an opportunity to learn, to live better? Sometimes who we have next to and do not see. Others that we have labeled as different and have discarded.
CUENTOS A LA MEDIDA talks about the moments of pause and emptiness that we call boredom (so familiar to everyone in this confined stage), pauses in which we are disoriented and how wealth emerges from the void. It also suggests the possibility of taking the initiative and being narrators of our own history through drawing and play. It also places the story and reading as tools to get closer to others and resolve conflicts. Otto is a boy, his neighbor a girl. Will they be able to help each other?
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