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Family stories teach resilience across cultures this holiday season
Anthropologists show every culture uses storytelling during holidays reunions and life events. Seven basic plots shape family tales from quest to over coming the monster, with voyage and return especially common in illness and recovery narratives. Bad stories build resilience by showing families rising above hardship and offering models for children facing their own monsters.
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Robyn Fivush
Emory University
Christopher Booker
Will Ferrell
Marshall Duke