Mathru Devo Bhava................................

From time immemorial, children have been taught wonderful concepts through 'vaymozhi' meaning 'oral language' but more specifically stories.

Every story narrated to a child must have three aspects pertaining to - the mother, the father, and the teacher.

The mother after giving birth nourishes the child carefully and gives the child access to tools for development. So the narration of a story to a child must also create the requisite interest and desire in the child to get more and more interested and to develop an inquiring mind to proceed further with the story. The intensive desire to keenly follow the trends in the story should be born in the child’s mind.

The father helps the child to grow up and develop a continuous and well connected pattern for the progress of the child. So any story must develop a sustaining interest so the child may feel to be an active partner in the world of the story, and move along with the heroes and heroines with an attentive mind.

The teacher imparts knowledge to the child to with a view to think independently and gain some life skills. So the story should have a moral that the child could follow and help the child to deal with various situations independently.

Hence the prayer,

"Mathru Devo Bhava, Pithru Devo Bhava, Guru Devo Bhava"

Meaning that I worship the godliness in my mother, and in my father, and in my teacher