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What stories should you be telling kids this holiday season?

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imageWhy do we tell stories?PROsean dreilinger, CC BY

In every culture that anthropologists have ever studied, people tell stories.

Families most frequently tell stories around the time of vacations, family reunions, (sadly) funerals, Thanksgiving and, of course, the family-oriented winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

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