Want to expand your children’s vocabulary? Read to them.

That’s all it
takes — and there are other benefits to reading aloud to young
children as well.
Reading to older children offers a great method to teach them life
lessons in a way that they’ll understand. And it’s easier than ever to
find these moral stories to read.

There is a large selection of short moral stories for kids online. They
range from the classics like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, to somber ones
talking about greed. To help you out, we’ve gathered a selection of the
most 20 popular stories.

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20 Short Moral Stories For Kids

1. The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The moral
Lying breaks trust — even if you’re telling the truth, no one believes a
liar.
Once, there was a boy who became bored when he watched over the
village sheep grazing on the hillside. To entertain himself, he sang out,
“Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!”