Stories have long served as vehicles of moral instruction by adults and some of the stories in the series also focus on teaching children good habits such as requesting to pass food at the table and avoiding talk while eating. At times the learning is shown to be instantaneously imbibed by the child such as Aman in Nilima Sinha’s, Okay Mom! who learns to keep his things in their proper places once he trips and falls over his shoes, resulting in injuring himself and missing playing with his friend.
November 2016, volume 40, No 11