## Metadata - Author: [[Nancy Mellon]] - Full Title: Storytelling With Children - Category: #books ## Highlights - Computer stories, television, and even printed books are chilly substitutes for closeness with fully present adults who are spinning whole tales out of their own hearts and souls. ([Location 180](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DW2NRQW&location=180)) - Tags: [[blue]] - As children discover with delight this vibrant mantle of speech, memory and imagination that enfolds every human being, they insist we help draw it around them, sensing that only within it can they fully grow into their own humanity. ([Location 201](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DW2NRQW&location=201)) - Tags: [[blue]] - The essential expectation of every child to be nourished by parental breathing and speech never dies. The inner call for a warm, breathing story told just for us persists until the very end of all of our lives. No quantity of books, television, tape recordings or computerized stories can fully satisfy our deepest needs for connection. ([Location 274](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DW2NRQW&location=274)) - Tags: [[blue]]