From Reluctant to Radiant: Storytelling Secrets to Help Your Child Fall in Love with Writing
Do you ever hear you kids say, "I hate writing! Don't make me do it!" or "I'd rather play video games" or "I would rather do math."
Many children and teens see writing as a painful activity, fraught with bouts of frustration, confusion, and resignation.
Some parents, who are authors, might see their kids sit with blank stares, not knowing what to write or how to write it.
For 15+ years, we at Beyond The Box Learning believe in the power of story. We love it for its entertainment value, and its ability to convey information in a way where we understand a problem or emotion deeply.
Join us in unlocking the ultimate tool we all possess, the ability to pull people deep into a story of our own making!
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"I WANT to tell an awesome story!"
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Do you ever hear you kids say, "I hate writing! Don't make me do it!" or "I'd rather play video games" or "I would rather do math."
Many children and teens see writing as a painful activity, fraught with bouts of frustration, confusion, and resignation.
Some parents, who may have written books, might see their kids sit with blank stares, not knowing what to write or how to write it.
Soon their child puts their hands on their faces sobbing or cradle their heads in their folded arms, quietly sobbing.
Kids don't where to begin or if the write a half page they'll stop, worried that what they wrote is not good enough.
Appeasing or consoling them will only get you so far, before the break down begins again.
What's the solution to writing without tears?
How do we turn a tantrum into a calm state where kids are happily writing with flow and interest.
How do go from avoiding the pencil, pen, or even on the computer to write, towards writing a few sentences?
The key to writing is to not write. But to tell a story.
If we replace the word "Writing" with Story, we have a chance to reframe the experience from being act where focused on being self-critical or "Being our own Cop" to being outward like connected or "Sharing our Story, warts and all."
This class is for parents as much as it is for your child.
It is a class where we accept that Story a story is rare perfect, and honestly under those conditions, making everyone happy, it would be reduced to be as interesting a block of concrete.
Instead, by seeing Story as an imperfect tool, with deliciously imperfect characters acting on imperfect acts, we can embrace a tool that kids know, and some parents have forgotten - silliness.
That's right, we lean into the silly. This makes creating Stories a playground where lots of play occurs, and as a result, a mountain of learning is had.
The chocolate covered, sweetened sense of play, we'll begin to see children test us and themselves, where they'll begin to draw messy characters, then short sentences, always looking at us to see if we'll critique or correct them. But don't take the bait. Most kids love the freedom and fun of a playground because they can imagine a scene where they are the hero. This is a story where you don't want them to leave. A parent telling them to be careful at every single turn will likely turn the child off from going to the playground, especially if they know we are harping at them at every turn, pulling them out of their fantasy as a hero.
When we write, there is nothing dangerous, and at such a young age, even in their teens, we should encourage writing expressively, and "dangerously."
When we enter the playground of Story, the writer is in control. The writer has the power to create a world for their audience to step into. The writer has power to control their fates. And its the writer who can steer us into danger, and out again using all the powers of their intellect.
When we write without anchoring fun, excitement, and a sense of power in our writing, we are left with a homework assignment left for another person to judge us.
Let's, instead, discover ways to establish a sense of wonder, experimentation, exploration, and most of all, silliness and fun.
Join me in this course to share ways you can instill a practice and love of writing in your childa foundation built on love, trust in themselves, and a feel of power. We'll talk about the wonderful wooly warts, Christmas Tofu, and heroes named Billy Bob Joe - all strange and wonderful friends that have been conjured by our students over the years.
We hope you join us.
From Reluctant to Radiant: Storytelling Secrets to Help Your Child Fall in Love with Writing
This course is designed for parents
who want to instill a positive relationship for their child around their writing.
We'll cover our framework
for helping to establish a more friendly entry into writing
without the pressure of grades or core outcomes.
Our job is to create a playground,
and then suggest techniques to make our play deliciously fun.
With these tools, you and your child can reestablish,
a sense of wonder, confidence, and resilience
as you both become powerful Story Makers.
Join us!
And open the Portal of your child's imagination
with intelligence, presence, and love!
Special offer! Enroll now and get a 35% discount !
Here’s What You’ll Get When You Sign Up
In this self-paced online course, we'll lay out the exact sequence for you to confident take your child into a realm where they want to write about it.
Once you purchase it, you will be sent a confirmation and
welcome page that will allow you to establish a login name and password.
You will have immediate access to ALL features of the course
In total, it may take 4-5 hours to watch the videos, but you'll be directed to practice a weekly suggestion over the course of a month or two.
In the end, you'll not only establish a weekly writing time, but learn and teach our Story Making Techniques for your child to experiment with and anchor that feeling of fun around writing.
Have your child build a writing habit they enjoy
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Only the Most Essential Techniques
We have years of experience and a arsenal of techniques. And though each child is different, we've boiled our lessons to the ones our ones students say are they most impactful and memorable.
Reading, Writing, and Ruminating
We'll leverage books your child has already read and loves by introducing exercises that encourages them to emulate their favorite author. Plus, by knowing our own Story Map, they'll see the underlying structure of their favorite stories. By knowing that, they have more confidence where their story is at, and how they might move on next.
Create your own Reading and Writing Group Advice
Our goal is to ensure that your child love or at least are comfortable taking the challenge of writing on their own. This is best done when they are part of a group. We'll impart our own techniques and the sequence from the high action rapport beginning to the focused writing towards the end.
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When we created this course, we wanted to bring the energy, momentum, and even openness to silliness our students have enjoyed.
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Daniela
4th Grader, Burlingame, CA
Developer
“This is my favorite class out of everything that I’ve done so far in my life, besides eating dark chocolate.”
Parent of two Lyceum kids
Shu-Hsien (sue-shen) and Royd are so positive and encouraging, and their classes are highly engaging. At the same time, the kids learn real lessons about choosing descriptive words, creating suspense, developing characters, etc
A. Pham
6th Grader, San Jose, CA
“I learned new words and ideas to improve my writing. It made me think of writing in a new way: “Imagination on Paper.”
Here's what's in the course!
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Secret Sauce 1: Story is a Magic Trick
In this course, we put writing with all its baggage of feeling like it has to be perfect. Professional writers begin with plenty of mistakes, even embrace the mistakes. So why can't the rest of us?
Let's put down the pressure of perfection, and move towards what Stories as tool help us do - that is, it allows us to create a world, whether in the past or future, for our readers and audience to step into.
Over the course of 3 to 5 short videos, we'll practice, talking and imagining, and loading up an idea. We'll embrace choosing any idea to begin. Don't worry we can change it later. They most important practice is to MAKE US....Worry and Make Us Care. We discuss why these two ideas are THE easiest and most important concept we can latch onto as we write.
By harnessing Worry and Care, along with a few others, we can get to the heart of a storyteller's inner power. The power to get people's attention and lean in to your every word and the power to make us empathize for our characters.
Whether you are giving a speech, or persuading a certain point to a crowd, but practicing this power, we can pull people's attention and learn not to be pulled when we know it's not in our favor.
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Secret Sauce 2: Character IS Story
We'll see how Character is everything when it comes to Story. This is true beyond plot. Our heroes are the spotlight. We want to be able to Worry and Care for them as a friend or curious observer. We live vicariously through them, take on their problems, ultimately become them as they fail and succeed with their intelligence and tenacity.Story is how we "step into other people's shoes." It's our first virtual reality experience. And through our characters we experience all of their emotions, logic, and action, even though in real life we would never make the same choices. If a Story is a playground, then we'll be able to momentarily go there and see what our hero's choice will take us.
Here are the tools we will cover:
- Skills, Flaws, Wants
- Beliefs & Mis-Beliefs
- How Setting helps to define our Characters
- The 6 Core Types of Characters
- Backstory, Current Story, Possible Future Story
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Secret Sauce 3: The Hero's Personal Goal
With our potential characters in place, a Selfish Want, we want to create a Personal Goal to achieve.
Will be easy to get there? No! It should be difficult! The more difficult the more fun it will be! We will worry and care, and see how clever our hero is.
Here are some tools we will cover:
- Creating a visual story map that makes sense to kids
- The converging pressures to set out on the Journey
- The Portal - the doorway to the Extraordinary World
- 3 Places, 3 Obstacles on the way to the Personal Goal
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Secret Sauce 4: BADTODE
This character will both get a laugh and set a reminder to include:
- Backstory
- Action
- Dialogue
- Thoughts
- Observations
- Description
- Emotion
We read from random example texts to see how each is used. Some story mediums like plays or novels will lean into one more than others. And some authors will do the same. But in the end, we'll see how having most of these on the page will provide a level of depth our audiences crave. Why? Because it makes them worry and care!
Bonus
Our Ultimate WV Story Map Slide Template
We know from teaching this class, kids love to play with Google Slides. We've created a template for them to visually build their story. This is also an excellent resource for them to reference later when they'll need to write book reports in elementary or middle school, and analyze literature in high school.
Printable Worksheets
Parents love printing out our various blank panel worksheets and brainstorming pages to help build and "Load up" their children's story. These keep them engaged in their story and begs the write to "Get the Story Out" no matter how messy.
We'll also include a few pointers for parents to direct them on what to expect and tips on what to say when "writer's block" creeps in and out of the process.
Famous Author Tips PDF
3000 ft. View Reviser Hot Sheet
Boring Words To Avoid PDF
and more!
Live Q & A Sessions
We'll have multiple times where you can choose multiple times where we can answer any questions or tips pulled from our experience working with students for the last 15 or more years.
It can be about Story, tips on Writing Contests, or our attitude in general about the process of writing
About Writing Coaches,
Royd Hatta & Shu-Hsien Ho
For the past 15+ years, Mr. Royd and Mr. Shu-Hsien have been helping to reframe writing from aconfusing, anxiety-producing experience to one of adventure, curiosity, and intellectual passion.
Building from the ground up, they have embraced characters and energized methods that help the once reluctant writer to reclaim their relationship with their joy of telling their own stories. By doing so, they begin to take steps towards their own naturally passionate voice and confidence.
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Heidy B
12th Grader, Freestyle Academy
“This class was awesome! It really got the juices flowing."
“This class was awesome! It really got the juices flowing. All your handouts were very useful. I look forward to other writing workshops that you do.”~ Heidy B., 12th Grader, Freestyle Academy, Mountain View.
Erika K.
Novelist, Ta Naia
"Made the process of writing easier and more enjoyable."
Your coaching has made the process of writing easier and more enjoyable, a rarity that I am grateful to have found. Her support and advice have been vital to my writing.
Lyceum Parent
"[My son's] writing has improved substantially, and his willingness to write fiction and edit his work has grown enormously."
I can't say enough good things about Shu-Hsien Ho and Royd Hatta, a couple who teach writing to children and teens. [My son's] writing has improved substantially, and his willingness to write fiction and edit his work has grown enormously.
Reframe the reactive work of "Writing" into
"I'm a story maker, and I want to tell my story."
We here to make your child find their power as a Story Maker and Story Teller.
By showing and playing with our proven techniques to inspire pages of Story,
your child will step into the Heroic Challenger's attitude willing to dive deep
into their characters, their immersive worlds.
But this isn't just about your child writing fun, exciting stories.
This is also about you as a parent, mentor, and teacher.
We'll show you our techniques to get their pencils moving.
We'll play Story games to load up a world of characters
and actions that capture your child's attention.
And, we'll show the near universal Story pattern to
guide your child to tell their own from beginning, middle, and end.
They'll gain confidence because they'll know where they are in their story
and see what the possibilities are for what happens next.
We are committed to transform your child from
Reluctant Writer to
an Engaged Story Challenger
Don't be like the thousands of Engineers who hit the inivisible glass ceiling like my judo sensei who was an Aerospace Mechanical Engineer.
I asked him what advice he'd give to someone like me at the time entering college.
He said, "I should have learned how to write. I am the best engineer, with seniority, but I don't receive promotions as often because I just don't write as well the others. And I see it happening to others around me."
I was shocked. And, appalled. I knew then that writing was much more than providing answers to questions my teachers submitted for essays. And even then, I wasn't quite sure what an essay really "looked" like. In the end, a great essay has its roots in Story, which is grounded in reality.
But even more so, a compelling essayist is a great Story Teller and Story Maker.
And even more so, they bring about an
underlying intellectual curiosity, energy, and engagement that
only a excited Teller of Stories can exude.
Stories rule the world.
And those who know how to harness it will overcome any obstacles.
In fact, stories ARE about overcoming them.
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