Miscellaneous | Millions of Stories

Great post from elifesmeaning on a child story teaching great values to our little ones. Worth a read!

My mind went over the amazing examples of simple, but effective ways of living from various creatures in nature. I wrote an article about one interesting insect. To allow time for the work to register, I left it for some time. When I came back to spell-check and reread it, I chose to first restart my computer. The article was erased along with everything that was open. That led me to consider the story of The Little Engine that Could. I found a website that talked about the origins of the story. So I am using an earlier version.

In a certain railroad yard there stood an extremely heavy train that had to be drawn up an unusually heavy grade before it could reach its  destination. The superintendent of the yard was  not sure what it was best for him to do, so he  went up…

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Story time in a kindergarten classroom in Marina, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Seeing the immense success I’m having so far in getting people tell stories to children around them, I started to think of ways to make the process even easier and to give some reward to those willing to do the extra step of registering with us after telling a story to a child close to them.

I’m perfectly conscious that most of you who read my posts may already tell stories to their own children or to their close little ones relatives . So why would you bother to register to my blog and tell me that, right? Isn’t everybody reading stories to their kids anyway? Well, according to a study of the University of California, only 47.8% of children between birth and the age of 5 are read to everyday by their parents in the United States. I have to admit, this is a study dated of 2007, but quite honestly, do you really believe this has improved since then? I don’t.

All this to say, that the very first phase of the Millions of Stories project is to raise awareness around this fact. To do so, we need something big, we need a lot of persons unifying together behind a huge and noticeable goal, i.e. telling 1 millions of stories to children all around the world.

Skeptics, now I hear you thinking : “1 millions of stories that’s already impossible to achieve and now he talks about this as being the first phase or the project? Crazy!”. No, no, I’m not crazy, I strongly believe this can happen and that once this first phase is completed, a world of possibilities will then open in order to further expand to bigger events, such as many Storytelling Events if you recall one of my first post about those.

But, back to earth now, we need to start with the first milestone. It’s very easy, trust me. I just need 6 more persons, 1 per continent, willing to tell a story to a child and register with us. I already got North America covered, but nonetheless, I’m still accepting registration from there too. The next step is to ensure coverage in every country after all!

To make it easier and more anonymous, in case this can be a concern for anyone, I created an easy-to-fill form for registering.. The only 3 questions to fill are the following:

Which story did you tell to a child for this project?
In which continent are you based?
In which country are you based?

You don’t even have to provide your name, e-mail or any personal information! This project is not about collecting your personal information, it’s about telling stories to children and making them happy, that’s all! That reminds me one of my tweet few days ago : “I have nothing to sell, just happiness to giveaway!”. That’s true! 🙂

The questions regarding the continent and country are simply to allow me to keep track of progress through the goal because, not only do I want to have 1 million stories told all around the world, but I want to have at least 1 story told in each and every country and therefore in each and every continent as well. That includes Antarctica!

Finally, last but not least, the reward! That’s right, there is a reward. As you register, if you provide a link to your web site or blog, I promise to post at least one link back to your site in a summary post about the project progress. I may even post it multiple times if it is relevant to some of my other posts. Think of this link-back as being an investment. Today, because this project is starting, the net result may not be that big, but just imagine what my search-engine ranking (and therefore yours) will be when the goal will be reached! Think it through carefully before passing by this great opportunity!

So, really, registering with us becomes a win-win-win situation. By order of importance…

Win for a child who got to share an happy storytelling moment
Win for you with an increased score in search-engine ranking
Win for the project Millions of Stories in getting closer to its ultimate goal.

What are you waiting for then? Tell a story, any nice story, to a child and : Be part of It, Join Us!

Millions of Stories

Telling millions of stories to children around the world

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