Comments on: Three Printable Children’s Stories

By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:04:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing Bonnie’s stories. Would love to see them illustrated into children’s books. I’m sharing Taylor’s Pond tomorrow during the children’s story of our church service. Will relate it to God’s commandments which keep us safe from the terrible consequences of sin.

By: Carri Heaslip

Carri Heaslip — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:43:24 +0000

I shared Grandma’s Tea Cup with our children at Church this past week. They loved it! I added that Jesus loves us as well and when we feel like our lives are broken up like the tea cup, He gently puts us back together with His love. It was a delight to see how intently the adults were listening as well.
I took some of my own tea cups & saucers to give to the children. Our numbers were small and there were enough for each child and their mom. Praise the Lord!

By: Denzil

Denzil — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:40:50 +0000

Just read “Grandma’s Tea cup. Great message. Will read it to the children at my church!!!

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:06:58 +0000

Great stories! I liked each of them! They have good morals and are easy for the children to relate to. The kids I used them for liked them allot.

By: Edmund Jones

Edmund Jones — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:31:27 +0000

Hi, thank you the stories are very sweet. I teach arts and culture at a school and love to use christian moral stories as the foundation of my lessons.

God bless

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:14:57 +0000

I just read “Grandma’s Tea Cup” to my kids for their bedtime story. They enjoyed it. Nice message.

I have a few grammatical and literary comments, if you don’t mind. Here goes:

In paragraph 1: “Finally, Grandma said the next time she visited she would [let] her hold it.” The word “let” is missing.

Page 2, second sentence. “Maybe she forgot her promise…” Maybe it should read “had forgotten”.

Page 2, half-way down, “She had broken Grandma’s favorite tea cup.” This is the first mention that the cup was Grandma’s favorite, not just Stella’s favorite. It’s a minor point, but you might want to clarify that earlier in the story.

Page 3, half-way down, “She sobbed as she went to get the broken pieces.” Could you put in Stella’s name rather than the pronoun? “Stella sobbed” would eliminate the slight ambiguity there.

The second-to-last sentence could be reordered a bit for emphasis:

Grandma turned back to the cupboard. “Oh, look what we have here!”

Thanks for the invitation to comment. I hope these thoughts help.
Your friendly editor, John

By: sharon harrison

sharon harrison — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:47:26 +0000

The stories were awesome. My students enjoyed listening. They couldn’t wait until the end of each story to find out what happened.

Thank you

By: benj

benj — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:29:38 +0000

These three children stories are good. I compare to each one and found one lesson ” to obey ” . The Bible says “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you”. It’s not only to give honor to our parents that we may receive a promise or blessing through them , they are only the channel of God who transmitted that promise and blessing. That is why by honoring our parents we obey God for it is not there parent law but of God. The first story : Grandma’s tea cup that broke and glued illustrates our lives that even we’ve sin and always do sinning against God if we admit and confessed heartily He is always there to forgive our sins and be whole. Just leaning on His everlasting arms our clothes will be as white as snow we don’t see any spot or wrinkle .The second story is illustrating that when we saw a sign we must conform and obey or else we’ll be mess up. God give us ten wonderful do and dont’s , of these signs no one will led you out of the way and nobody will lost . They sign ” don’t swim” preventing everyone not to do so , because I believe the one who put that sign thinks something bad will happen if they do. The third , sometimes we cannot always watch our children even when we warn them not to do certain things that we knew is not good for them but children insist. We are all sons and daughters of God, although we knew God but sometimes we neglect to do things that is right at the end we are sorry for what we’d done. Once we realize our wrongdoing then we felt pity and seek the forgiveness of our parents and of God. I love these stories keep writing and God Bless Sister

By: Valerie

Valerie — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:22:15 +0000

I used the Grandma’s Tea Cup story to illustrate that when we disobey God we can mess up our lives, but God continues to love us and will put our lives back together again just like Grandma glued the teacup back together. I conclude by saying that though you may still be able to see the cracks in Grandma’s tea cup, as we learn to trust Jesus He can put our lives together so that the cracks don’t even show.

By: Bronwen Scott

Bronwen Scott — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:27:47 +0000

Thanks for a great website, it is very generous of you to share your stories and ideas.