Start with our ancient stories.
Discover a whole new way to share them.
The little ones giggle. Older children think. A rooted inner voice grows.
From parent to partner. One story, one dialogue at a time.
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Let's start with a scene you know only too well. Your two children are at it again. Screaming. Hitting. You step in. You reason. You separate them. You thought you found peace. Ten minutes later, the fight rages on. Another night, you try to take away the screen. Instant meltdown!
Whether you hold your ground, or you give in, you end up feeling awful. You have reasoned. You have pleaded. Some days you have shouted, then felt terrible about it. Nothing seems to stick. Why?
Here is the thing nobody tells you. Lectures slide off a child. In one ear, out the other. And the moment you tell a child what to do, a door closes. This is how we are built.
Storyful Parent begins somewhere you did not expect. YOU. In the first few weeks, you catch yourself before you snap. The sharp words you used to replay at night come less often. Your child feels a shift. The evenings soften. You grow from parent to partner.
An Ancient Indian Way
An Ancient Indian Way
You light the lamp. Your child does the seeing.
Tell a story, light a lamp
Tell a story, light a lamp
Most stories end with a moral. Ours ask a question and begin a conversation. A moral tells a child what to think. It is quickly forgotten. A question shines light for children to discover on their own. This discovery the child chooses to keep. Sometimes forever.
From parent to partner
From parent to partner
I grew up with parents who loved rules. "Because we say so." Most of us heard it. Many of us say it. There is another way to be with a child. As you share stories and wonder alongside, you become someone they trust and open up to.
A rooted inner voice
A rooted inner voice
In a world of fast screens and loud opinions, a child needs a steady inner voice. One that knows its own values and feelings, that asks questions and decides for itself. Growing it is slow work. But it is work that matters most.
Two Offers
Two Offers
Story Kosh gives you the stories. Story Samvad shows you what to do with them.
Stories · Story Kosh
Stories · Story Kosh
A quick entry · Tell a story tonight
₹ 999 a year
New stories added every month
A treasury of stories for ages two to ninety nine. (Grown-ups love our stories too.)
Crafted by a storyteller. Made for telling. Begin with Ganesha.
Every story here is crafted by a storyteller, shaped over years of telling to real children, and written to be told, not just read. Simple words that even a two year old can follow. Sounds. Voices. Mischief that makes even adults giggle.
And deep roots, sourced primarily from the tales of Bharat, with a few from around the world. Open one tonight, and you will feel the difference on the very first page.
The same story reaches each child at their own level. Your two year old pats Ganesha's tummy and shouts "Yum!" Your eight year old wonders why Kubera was still not happy.
Tell our stories often, and night after night your child will meet a new moment of wonder, and a gentle question to think about. The habit of stopping to think and feel begins right here, inside the tale, while it is still safe and still play.
Training · Story Samvad
Training · Story Samvad
The deeper promise · Live training
₹ 3999
Also includes a year of story circles and Story Kosh
Learn what to do with the stories you tell.
A live training for parents who want to go deeper. Where the story ends, the conversation begins.
Most of us ask how to change our child. But children learn from how we live more than they heed what we say. The deep work is to become the person our child learns from.
This is what our Story Samvad training is all about. Working on how we live, how we respond, how we share and grow with our children.
The first change shows up in YOU. You ask where you once told. You listen where you once lectured. You pause where you once snapped. Then the bond changes. You become a partner your child thinks alongside. They open up to you. And something steady takes root. An inner voice that knows its own feelings and values, that questions and decides for itself.
None of this is quick. It builds over hundreds of bedtimes. But it is real. And it stays.
Meet Storyful Parent
Meet Storyful Parent
Hi! I am Devaki Gajare, a Storyful Parent.
For thirteen years I have told stories to children, and trained adults to tell them well. Along the way I noticed something.
Most parents ask me how to tell a story. The deeper question is what we do once the story ends.
Story Kosh gives you the stories.
Story Samvad shows you what to do with them.
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