• Magar, Alefiya.

Humans are a narrating species. We narrate ourselves and in doing so we find our place in the world, we interrogate and understand the realities we inhabit. If we argue that stories are the bread and butter of a growing mind what are the stories that we as children are hearing? What’s their content? Are they full of hope, joy, wonder, grace and love or are they about dangers, betrayals, sorrows, blind faith and superstition? What are the sources of these stories? Are parents mindful of what stories their children are hearing and seeing? As our children grow up more in a digitalised and mediatised world how will things come to shape? How much of an influence would parents and families be in shaping the narratives of the children in comparison to the mass media? The study explored the role of stories in the world of our children. The study looked at the sources of the stories and the degree of mindfulness that parents invested in storytelling as they brought their children up. The working hypothesis was that children were primarily exposed unwittingly to stories of family and family members, both living and dead, present and absent. However, a large proportion of the stories that children were exposed to came from the mass media.

storytelling, children, mass media, digitisation, mediation, parents

"A study of the story-bound world of our children", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.9-10, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCX06004.pdf

"A study of the story-bound world of our children", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp9-10, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCX06004.pdf