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Once upon a time, on a busy weekday evening, a mother switched off the screen for dinner. Instant meltdown! She explained, pleaded, negotiated. She even shouted, and felt terrible afterwards. Nothing seemed to work.
That mother was me.
Thirteen years of telling stories to thousands of children.
My own two at home loved my stories.
But the stories changed nothing. Why?
My children would hear the morals. Share. Be kind. Stay calm. They would nod along. A few minutes later, back to screaming. For a screen. At each other. It took me a long time to understand.
You see, every time I explained, I was doing the thinking for them. Because I gave them my answers, they never learned to look for their own. This frightened me.
I imagined the day my child walks into a room I cannot enter.
A playground. A classroom. A party.
A choice made when I am nowhere near.
The only thing that goes into that room with them is the voice in their own head.
How do I nurture that voice? This question became my work as a parent.
The answer begins with stories.
Your child already loves them.
We only change what comes after.
We stop telling our children what to think.
We show them how we think.
We let them discover what they think.
An old way, made new
An old way, made new
You light the lamp.
Your child does the seeing.
Our ancestors gave us more than stories. Their storytelling tradition invited listeners to think, question and discover for themselves. They trusted their listeners, young and old, to arrive at meaning.
Storyful Parent is my effort to bring that freedom back into our homes.
The story begins the conversation. The conversation is where your child gets to practice thinking and feeling.
As you let your child do the seeing, you change too. You explain less, listen more. You think out loud with your child, and they feel safer opening up to you.
Over the years, your child begins to pause before they react. Think before they choose. The voice in their head grows stronger, steadier. It becomes a friend your child learns to trust, even when the world pushes the other way.
You no longer fear the room you cannot enter.
Two ways to begin
Two ways to begin
Story Kosh gives you the stories.
Story Samvad shows you what to do with them.
A quick entry
A quick entry
Story Kosh
₹ 999 a year
A treasury of stories for ages two to ninety nine.
New tales added every month.
Shaped over thirteen years of telling to children, made easy for you to tell.
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 your child begins to feel, ask why, and wonder what next. Right here, inside the tale, while it is still safe and still play.
A deeper promise
A deeper promise
Story Samvad
₹ 3999 (special founding cohort price)
Three live Discovery Circles with me, then a year of monthly practice. Includes a year of Story Kosh.
Most of us wonder how to change our child. But children learn from how we live. The deeper work is to become the person our child learns from.
In our circles, we start with you. One evening, you catch yourself before you snap. Your child feels this shift. The evenings soften.
This change is real, but it builds over hundreds of bedtimes. I won't ask you to decide today.
Meet Storyful Parent
Meet Storyful Parent
Hi! I am Devaki Bhujang Gajare. Storyteller. Trainer. Storyful Parent of two.
Since 2012, I have told stories to thousands of children, and trained hundreds of adults to tell them well.
Most parents come to me asking how to tell a story. The more interesting question is what we do once the story ends.
Want to know me better? Read my story
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