Small moral stories for kids in English

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A BOUGHT COMFORT ISN'T A BLESSING

One winter day, a wild ass was wandering about aimlessly. Suddenly he came to the edge of the forest where he saw a donkey lying in the warm sun at full length. Quite care-free as the donkey looked, the ass envied him a lot.

The wild ass went to the donkey and said, "How lucky you are! Your sleek skin shows how well you live." Saying this, the ass left the place but still kept thinking about the donkey.

After few days, he came again to see the donkey. But this time the donkey had a heavy load on his back. His master was following him with a stick in his hand and was hitting the donkey off and on to make him move at a steady pace.(small moral stories for kids) 

Seeing this the ass said to himself, "What a pity. I no longer envy him. I didn't know that he has to live such a miserable life and has to buy his comfort at this price."

A COWARD CAN'T TEACH COURAGE

Once there lived a hind in a forest. She had a son who had grown very young and strong. She was very happy to see his stout body and branched strong horns and thought, "stags have powerful horns, why should they be afraid of hounds, wolves then? It's sheer cowardice. I would never like my son to do it at all."

After some time, the hind's son came there. The hind wanted to teach him to be courageous. She said, "Son! You have a stout body and strong horns. So, you must not run away from hounds and wolves. Don't be a coward."(small moral stories for kids)

"Ok, mom; I won't", said the stag.

Just then the mother and the son heard the bark of the hounds. The hind got ready to run away when her son asked her to stay on. She said, "You may, but I have no horns."

Saying so, she ran as fast as she could.

The mother herself was a coward and was teaching courage to her son. What a satire!

A FOX AND A CRANE

Once a fox and a crane became friends. So, the fox invited the crane to dinner. The crane accepted the invitation and reached the fox's place at sunset.(small moral stories for kids)

The fox had prepared soup for his mate. But as we all know that foxes are cunning by nature, he served the soup in flat dishes. So, he himself lapped the crane's share with his tongue enjoying its relish a lot. But the crane could not enjoy it at all with his long beak and had to get back home hungry. The shrewd fox felt extremely amused.

After few days, the crane invited the fox to dine in with him. The fox reached his place well in time. The crane gave him a warm welcome and served the soup in a jug with a long and narrow neck.(small moral stories for kids)

So, the crane enjoyed the soup with great relish using his long beak. The fox's mouth couldn't reach the soup through the narrow neck of the jug. He had to return home hungry. Now he realized that he had been repaid for his behaviour with the crane.

A FUSSY CUSTOMER

Once there was a man who was very fussy about food. One day, he felt like having some seafood and went to a restaurant and ordered some oysters.(small moral stories for kids)

The man said to the waiter, "Please check that oysters are neither too large nor too small, neither too salty not too fried, neither too fat, nor too thin."

At this the waiter said, "Do you want them with or without pearls?"

The man realized that the waiter was taunting him and understood that one should not be so much fussy about things.

A KNOWN ENEMY IS ALWAYS BETTER

Once upon a time, all goats held a meeting against the cruelty of butchers. They wanted to take revenge for their killings. Each goat expressed her idea about how to carry it out. Some of them went as far as to sharpen their horns saying that they would pierce the bellies of the butcher. Seeing the passion running high, old and wise gout stood up and tried to cool down the other goats.

The old goat said, "If we kill the present butchers, some new butchers will take their place. And they will kill us even more mercilessly because of their inexperience. And if we kill them too, more raw-hands will follow. And suppose we kill all the butchers, men will never do without our flesh. They will themselves start killing us. So, drop the idea of killing these butchers. They kill us the easiest way as they know us and our pain well."

A LION AND A MOUSE

It was a hot summer day. Sun was shining bright up in the sky. A lion was sitting under the shade of a big tree and in some time got asleep. Nearby that tree, there was a hole, in which there lived a mouse. When the lion was sleeping, the mouse came out of its hole and saw him asleep.(small moral stories for kids)

Unaware of the lion's strength, it got tickled by an idea. It thought of waking up the lion by running over his body just for fun.

Unfortunately, the lion seized it in his strong paw. The mouse pleaded for its life. Being generous by nature, the lion set it free. The mouse promised to help the lion if it ever got the chance. The lion laughed aloud at this. After all, how could a tiny mouse help the king of the jungle?

A few days later, the mouse was passing through the jungle when he saw the same lion trapped in a hunter's net. Immediately, it set to work, gnawing at the ropes. Very soon the tiny mouse had ser the lion free.

Remember, mercy never goes unrewarded.

A MONKEY AND TWO CATS

Once upon a time two cats found a piece of cheese and cut it into two pieces. But one piece was slightly bigger than the other. Both the cats wanted the bigger piece. Then they went ton a monkey and asked to sort out the matter.(small moral stories for kids)

The monkey said, "Don't worry. I'll make both the pieces equal. Then it took a bite from the bigger piece. But this made the other piece larger. So it took a bite from the other piece. This continued till the pieces became very small.

Seeing this, the cats pleaded, "Sir! We are satisfied. Let us have the pieces now."

The shrewd monkey replied, "This is my fee for sorting out the problem." Saying this, it gobbled up the remaining cheese.

A SMALL THING COSTS MUCH

One day, while walking down the road, a father said to his son, "Look, a horseshoe is lying in the mud. Pick it up."

The son said, "I hate to pick up things from mud."(small moral stories for kids)

The father picked up the horseshoe and kept it in his pocket. On reaching the village, he sold the horseshoe and bought some cherries.

Father understood the desire of his son and dropped a cherry on the ground. The son picked it up, washed it and ate it up.

Then the father said to him, "Sometimes even small things cost much. These cherries are because of that horseshoe that you refused to pick up from the mud."

The son understood what his father meant.

A WILLFUL PERSON EVER SUFFERS

Once upon a time a man was going with his donkey down a hill-road. He was following the donkey with a stick in his hand. The donkey jogged down carefully over some distance. But then suddenly it left the track and strayed aside. Its owner tried his best to drive it back to the track but the willful beast didn't obey. As a result, it reached the edge of a cliff that overlooked a deep gorge.

The owner felt worried to see the donkey in danger. He couldn't understand what to do. So, he caught hold of it's tail when it was about to leap over the edge of the cliff.

The man tried hard to check the donkey from moving ahead but all went in vain. It didn't move even an inch backwards. So the man let it go saying, "All right, go your way to meet your death. What else can I do?"

ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST

Once a fox was roaming around in a forest looking for food. Suddenly, he saw a pig rubbing his tusks against the trunk of a tree.

The fox looked about carefully but couldn't see any danger for the pig anywhere. Despite being so clever, he couldn’t understand why, the pig was doing that.

He couldn't control himself, went to the pig and asked, "The hunters are not out today, nor can I see any other danger, then why are you doing that?"(small moral stories for kids)

The pig replied, "Dear! We live in a forest where enemies are there at every step. Who knows when I'll have to face them and use my tusks against them? So, if I don't do it now, I may not get time to sharpen my tusks when I need them the most."

This story teaches us that always be ready for the bad times to come.

ALWAYS BE TRUTHFUL

One day, Princy was alone at home. Her parents had gone to attend a party. Princy saw a stapler lying on her father's table. She picked it up and started playing with it.

She tore the pages of an old book and started stapling them. When the staples got finished, she tried to refill the stapler. As she didn't know how to do it, she broke it.

Princy got scared and left the stapler on the table. `next day, when her father asked her about the broken stapler, she confessed that it was broken by her.(small moral stories for kids)

Her father praised her for telling the truth but also asked her not to fiddle with things, which she didn't know how to use.

THE MANAGERALWAYS CARE FOR OTHERS

Once, a rich boy went to visit his native village. It was a sunny afternoon and he was feeling very hungry. So, he bought some food from a farmer and sat under a tree to eat.

Suddenly, he saw a poor boy standing at a distance and found that he was very hungry. He decided to leave some food for the poor boy. But, as he was very hungry, he forgot. He ate all the things. When he drank water, he saw something written at the base of the vessel, "Those who don't care for poor have no right to have food."(small moral stories for kids)

So the rich boy bought some food for the poor boy and gave it to him.