What an amazing concept! Every parent’s and teacher’s dream is to be able to teach in a way that your message will go into the hearts of those you’re instructing and stay with them their whole lives. Educational research has confirmed for years that using engaging stories to teach will cause your message to by-pass the brains short-term memory, and be stored in long-term memory where it will remain for most of a person’s life. So how do you do it? How do you teach with stories? Looking back on how this amazing teaching technique worked for our family, I have listed five guidelines that I believe will make teaching with stories easy, fun and most effective. Use stories that are exciting and engaging to your children or students. It’s not YOUR imagination that needs to be ... Read More about How Do You Teach to Your Children’s Hearts?
Teach Memorable Lessons
“I Just Wish My Children Would Remember What I Teach Them!” That is every parent or teacher’s dream, but it rarely seems to happen. Many times in the middle of what we are trying to tell them, children get bored and their attention drifts. The small amount of our teaching that actually gets into their minds tends to wind up in their short-term memory, and in a day or two or an hour or two or a minute or two, it’s gone. That cycle can become very discouraging; I’ve experienced that discouragement myself. So here’s the good news: it doesn’t have to be that way! Educational research has discovered an amazing teaching technique that God has known from eternity past. If you combine your teaching with an exciting or engaging story, the emotional center of the brain overrides the ... Read More about Teach Memorable Lessons
Exciting News, Tales of Larkin Fans
The audio version of book one, Hawthorn’s Discovery, Is now available as a MP3 download at Audible.com! Several of you have asked when you would be able to get the audio version, and I am excited to let you know that it has finally happened. This is actually a new audio production of the updated book version. I re-recorded the entire book, and, yes, I included all of the voice characterizations that I did for the original version. My wife insisted that I read the book to you the same way that I read it to my children. Just think, you finally get to hear what Rush and Eldan sound like! This is such a fun way to experience the Tales of Larkin stories. God's Blessings to all of you, Alan Harris ... Read More about Exciting News, Tales of Larkin Fans
Breaking news!
The Tales of Larkin website is now the home of Stories Change Hearts. This is an exciting new direction for the Larkin books as we encourage parents and teachers to use these engaging, Christ-centered adventure stories to teach to the hearts of their children and students. The new web address is StoriesChangeHearts.com. Take a moment to explore the site and find out more about this amazing teaching technique that not only allows you to instill godly character and spiritual lessons directly to the long-term memories of those you are teaching, but you will have an absolute blast doing it…and so will they! Once you see this you will have to tell others about it. ... Read More about Breaking news!
Exciting news!
Exciting news! The second edition of book one, Hawthorn's Discovery is almost ready for release. The real exciting part is that it will have an appendix with chapter questions to use for teaching the lessons in the story to the hearts of those you read it to. Parents and teachers, you will now be able to more easily use these fun and exciting Larkin adventures to teach to your children's hearts. ... Read More about Exciting news!
Coming Soon
Because our family was so blessed by my reading the stories to my children and then asking them questions about important spiritual and character lessons in the stories, I have decided to put an appendix in the back of each book with suggested questions for parents and teachers to ask to their children or students. This should all be completed soon. As each book is finished they will be uploaded to Amazon. I will also be making the audio books and the e-book versions available again at that time. I'm really excited about using the books to teach character and spiritual lessons and I have a lot more to say about that. So stay tuned for more exciting developments. ... Read More about Coming Soon