Top 15 Short Moral Stories For Kids
Top 15 Short Moral Stories For Kids
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do not make stories up for attention, for no one will help you when you actually need it.
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.
‘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, the milkmaid tossed her head and
dropped her pails. The milk spilled onto the ground while Patty cried.
Her father explained , ‘Each of these items was but in the same circumstance of being in a pot of boiling water. 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?’
One summer, the well present in the garden grew dry and there was no water for the plants. The rose began to wilt. She saw a
sparrow dip her beak into the cactus for some water. Though ashamed, she asked the cactus if she too could have some water.
The kind cactus readily agreed and they both got through the tough summer as friends.