Reading Fantasy to Children

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein 

As an avid non-fiction reader, self-help guru, I’ve never been a big fan of fiction. Or at least I never thought so. Until I became a mom. 

Devouring the “how to make your baby smart” books, I longed for my son to love learning. I wanted him to LOVE truth. Passionately researching, I discovered an unexpected method, 

“If you want a child to know the truth, tell him the truth. If you want a child to love the truth, tell him a story.” - Sarah Mackenzie

Story. 
How God speaks to us in the Bible.
How we build empathy for our fellow man. 
How we pass on history and touch a reader’s heart. 

I realized what captured my heart in medicine. Not memorizing the pharmacology facts - but the story behind those taking them. A woman’s regretful abortion. A dying man’s last wishes. A laboring mother’s prayers through contractions. The local physician who refused to practice unethically, and the nurse who rubbed the anxious patient’s feet. 

What made me a writer wasn’t my Masters in Science, or lack of English literature, but my passion for story.

The cliché is true. Whether through published books, Instagram blogs, private journals, captured photography, family films, or beautiful art, no one can tell our story – but us.

The cute fairy tales we tell, the handwritten letters we send, the art we craft. 

Our world desperately needs the redemptive hero, the faithful perseverance, the underdog’s victory. Now I know why to happily finish the Narnia series with my boys! 

This week:

- Read a fairy tale to your children. 
- Watch a favorite movie.
- Think of a story that’s impacted you. 
- Write a story from your life, (in a journal, online post, or prayer). 

Then remember Romans 8:28, in homemaking, career, marriage, or family. Listen for the story the Holy Spirit speaks. I’m so excited for what you’ll find! 😍📚

In Joy,

Alex