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2021年1月24日发(作者：证据)





Top 15 Short Moral Stories for Kids


In today’s age of busy schedules and omnipresent technology, we have given in and let our children be
entertained by the internet. However, there is nothing like spending a little quality time with your
little one with some stories and imparting some wisdom along the way. You might want to tell your
child a story with moral values that are similar to yours.
Fun and Entertaining Short Moral Stories For Your Children
1. The Needle Tree
There were once two brothers who lived on
the edge of a forest. The elder brother was
very mean to his younger brother and ate up
all the food and took all his good clothes.
One day, the elder brother went into the
forest to find some firewood to sell in the
market. As he went around chopping the
branches of a tree after tree, he came upon
a magical tree. The tree said to him, ‘Oh
kind sir, please do not cut my branches. If you spare me, I will give you my golden
apples’. The elder brother agreed but was disappointed with
the number apples the tree
gave him. Greed overcame him, and he threatened to cut the entire trunk if the tree
didn’t give him more apples. The magical tree instead showered upon the elder brother
hundreds upon hundreds of tiny needles. The elder brother lay on the ground crying in
pain as the sun began to lower down the horizon.
The younger brother grew worried and went in search of his elder brother. He found him with
hundreds of needles on his skin. He rushed to his brother and removed each needle with
painstaking love. After he finished, the elder brother apologised for treating him badly
and promised to be better. The tree saw the change in the elder brother’s heart and gave
them all the golden apples they could ever need.

Moral of The Story
：

It is important to be kind and gracious as it will always be rewarded.
2. Counting Wisely
Akbar once put a question to his court that left everyone
puzzled. As they all tried to figure out the answer, Birbal
walked and asked what the matter was. And so they told him the
question.
‘How many crows are there in the city?’

Birbal immediately smiled, went up to Akbar and announced that
the answer to his questions was twenty-one thousand five
hundred and twenty-
three. When asked how he knew the answer, Birbal replied, ‘Ask your men
to count the number of crows. If there are more
, then the crows’ relatives from outside
the city are visiting them. If there are fewer, then the crows are visiting their relatives
outside the city.’ Pleased with the answer, Akbar presented Birbal with a ruby and pearl
chain.

Moral of The Story
：

Having an explanation for your answer is just as important as
having an answer.
3. The Boy Who Cried Wolf
There was once a boy whose father one day told him that he is old
enough to look after the sheep. Every day he had to take the
sheep over the grass fields and watch them as they grazed to become strong sheep with
thick wool. The boy was unhappy though. He wanted to run and play, not watch the boring
sheep. So, he decided to have some fun instead. He cried ‘Wolf! Wolf!’ until the entire
village came running with stones to chase away the wolf before it could eat any of the
sheep. Once they saw that there was no wolf, they left muttering under their breath about
how the boy was wasting their time and giving them a good fright while at it. The next
day, the boy again cried ‘Wolf! Wolf!’ and the villagers again rushed to chase the wolf
away.
As the boy laughed at the fright he had caused, the villagers left, some angrier than the
others. The third day, as the boy went up a small hill, he suddenly saw a wolf attacking
his sheep. He cried as hard as he could, ‘Wolf! Wolf! WOLF!’, but the villagers thought
he was trying to fool them again and did not come to rescue the sheep. The little boy lost
three sheep that day, all because he cried wolf too many times.

Moral of The Story
：

Do not make stories up for attention, for no one will help you when you actually need it.
4. The Golden Touch
This is the story of a very greedy rich man
who chanced upon meeting a fairy. The
fairy’s hair was caught in a few tree
branches. Realising he had an opportunity to
make even more money, he asked for a wish in
return for helping the fairy. He said, ’All
that I touch should turn to gold’, and his
wish was granted by the grateful fairy.
The greedy man rushed home to tell his wife and daughter about his new boon, all the while
touching stones and pebbles and converting them into gold. Once he got home, his daughter
rushed to greet him. As soon as he bent down to scoop her up in his arms, she turned into a
gold statue. He realized his folly and spent the rest of his days searching for the fairy
to take away his wish.

Moral of The Story
：

Greediness will always lead to a downfall.
5. The Milkmaid and Her Pail
Patty the milkmaid had just finished milking her cow and had
two full pails of fresh creamy milk. She put both pails on a
stick and set off to the market to sell her pails of milk.
Along the way she started to think of all the milk in her pails
and all the money she would get for them.
‘Once I get the money, I’ll buy a chicken’, she thought.
‘The chicken will lay eggs and I will get more chickens.
They’ll all lay eggs and I can sell them for more money. Then
I’ll buy the house on the hill and be the envy of everyone in
the village. They’ll ask me to sell the chicken farm
, but
I’ll toss my head like this and refuse’. So saying, Patty,
Moral of The Story
：

the milkmaid tossed her head and dropped her pails. The milk spilled onto the ground while
Patty cried.

Do not count your chickens before they hatch.
6. When Adversity Knocks
This is a story explaining how adversity is
met differently by different people. Asha’s
father placed an egg, a potato, and some tea
leaves in three separate vessels with boiling
water. He asked Asha to keep an eye on the
vessels for ten minutes. Once these ten
minutes were over , he asked Asha to peel the
potato, peel the egg and strain the tea leaves.
Asha was left puzzled.
Her father explained , ‘Each of these items
was but in the same circumstance of being in a
pot of boiling wate
r. See how they’ve responded differently. The potato is now soft, the
egg is now hard, and the tea has changed the water itself. We are all like these items.
When adversity calls we respond in exactly the way they have. Now are you a potato, an egg
or are you
tea leaves?’

Moral of The Story
：