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Category: Storybox Playlist

Helping & Healing Helping Children with Fear at Halloween
We have found that stories are the most effective and enduring way to help children process — and then release — these images so they can enjoy all the magic and fun the season has to offer. Here are two stories that we think might help.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories About Trusting Life
What if life has messages and lessons for us? What if we just needed to learn to trust what we hear? Here are four stories to inspire you to try.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories About Trusting Yourself
What can we do to help our children hear their own quiet inner voice and trust themselves? These five stories can help.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories of Diversity and Difference
By learning to understand one another we can better learn to love and appreciate all people that we meet in our lives no matter that difference between us.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories of Fun and Foolery
We've got lots of fun light-hearted stories for you this week.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories of Faith and Gratitude
This playlist celebrates the "please" and "thank you's" we experience everyday. The playlist includes stories that will inspire grace in asking for help, and then satisfaction in expressing authentic gratitude for what we have.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories from the Windward
This week we are presenting a fresh set of Windward Ho! stories and looking for Fiona, the lost shipmate. You'll get to know her a bit more in tomorrow's blog post, but for now, come explore the five books of the Windward Ho! collection.
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Sparkle Schoolhouse Storybox Playlist: In Honor of Martin Luther King — Stories of Civil Rights
Each January 18th here in the US, we honor the memory of the great civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He worked tirelessly during the 1960's to bring change and create equal rights for the African American citizens of this nation. He was and still is a hero to many and for that we honor him this week with stories about civil rights.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories for When Parenting Feels Hard
In this playlist, we want to share stories of our Sparkle character parents and some of their hard days. Although these parents sometimes seem to dance their way through life, it's not all sunshine and rainbows for them.
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Storybox Playlist Storybox Playlist: Stories for Being with Fear
The stories in this playlist are all about being with fear, knowing where it comes from, and steps for managing it in a healthy, healing way. We hope these stories help anyone in your family who is feeling fear right now.
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