Every child likes listening to stories from their parents as they find them their best pass time. Also, they assume themselves playing the central part of the story which is told to them. Hence, it is really important that parents tell their kids only those short stories for kids that teach character. The short stories told to children should not be offensive and also they should not be driven by a lot of violence because that affects the small and sweet brain of the young ones.

Short stories for kids that teach integrity are the best choices as sighted by many child doctors since the stories taught leave a lasting impression in the lives of the children and hence it is best to teach them to be a person with integrity which can be best taught through those short stories told to them in bed before they go to sleep.

In India, a book of short stories for kids is very famous and it is named as Panchtantra which contains small anecdotes and very small stories related to animals which are usually taught to kids during their childhood which leave a lasting impression in each and every kid's life and everyone in India remembers those stories told to them at sometime of their childhood. All these stories as they say build character.

Another reason why these short stories for kids are important are because all of them are moral stories which means they have a lesson to learn in the end which teaches a person to be better person in this life. That is reason these stories also are called character building stories.

Telling the stories to kids in an animated style and also sighting them the moral driven out of the story and telling them to follow those morals in this world full of enmity can make this world a better and a peaceful place to live in. And since the children are the ones who will be the future, it is better to take help of these short stories for kids to have a healthy and a brighter future.