Classics
Beauty and the Beast
A girl who is kept by a Beast — fearsome, and not gentle at the start — and slowly comes to look past the shape of him to something underneath.
This Week · Forgiveness · Dec countdown
Forgiveness: is forgiving hard? Why try?
For littler ones: When somebody hurts you, is it hard to forgive them? Why would you want to?
This week, at the close of the year, we're wondering about forgiveness — and the hard part of it. Is forgiving hard? And if it is, why try at all? It's a good thing to turn over in the car or at the table, in a season when everyone's a little closer together. Nobody at your house has to land in the same place.
This week's stories
Classics
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper
A girl by the cinders with two stepsisters who were cruel to her — really cruel — and who, at the end, she does not pay back in kind.
Talk about it
- Is there someone it would be hard for you to forgive? What makes it hard?
- Cinderella doesn't get back at her stepsisters when she could. Why do you think she chooses that? Would you?
- When you forgive someone, what changes — for them, or for you, or for both?
A new question every week.
Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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