Children's Christmas Stories: Tales for Children About the Meaning of Christmas

Children are especially enthralled with the Christmas season. To them, it's a magical time of decorations, presents, endless celebration and fun. It's a time for visiting extended family or receiving visitors at home, of singing Christmas carols, and generally having a good time. One family tradition revolves around telling or reading certain stories to children that range from religious and historical depictions of the Christ child, Mary and Joseph and the Three Wise Men, to fanciful stories of Santa Claus and his eight tiny flying reindeer. Most of these stories have a lesson in them, as children's stories in general do.Perhaps one of the most well known Christmas stories is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. There are many adaptations of the story to make it shorter and easier for children to understand. Most adaptations talk of Ebenezer Scrooge, a wealthy but miserly and generally grumpy old man who thinks of nobody but himself until he receives visits from the three Christmas ghosts: the Ghost ofsbobet เล่น ไม่ ได้Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future. These ghosts show him the error of his current ways, and he essentially becomes born-again as a generous, happy older man after being made to see what he truly was.Another children's Christmas story is "Christmas in Seventeen Seventy-Six," by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. This story tells of two children whose father served in General George Washington's army during the American Revolution, and were waiting for him to come home to celebrate Christmas with them. Christmas Day comes, but their father does not. They received gifts of apples in their stockings, along with sugarplums and a turkey for dinner, which they decided to hold onto until their father came home. He didn't arrive until the day afterward, following the Battle of Trenton and with a small dog. The story is intended to show how, if they had not fought away from their families on Christmas Day,ibcbet ทางเข้าthere may not be a free country to celebrate Christmas in later on.A favorite religious Christmas story is the story of the night that Jesus Christ was born. "No Room at the Inn," by Verna Parks, is a version of that story and shows Mary and Joseph looking for shelter the night that Jesus Christ was born. The innkeeper had no available rooms that night but he could put them in the stable, with the animals and no other people. The hay was fresh, and smelled very sweet, and the animals, which helped provide warmth, were munching on it as Mary went into labor. She gave birth in quiet warmth and privacy, with soft, sweet-smelling hay to lay her baby in, as though God had planned it from the beginning and the full inn was a blessing, not a curse or even an inconvenience.It's fun for children and adults alike to sit around the fireplace and listen to Christmas stories, and many families around the U.S. have made a special tradition out of it.http www ibcbet com