Miss Rory’s Story Emporium is a collection of audio stories for families to enjoy together. Each of Miss Rory’s stories is delivered as a miniseries containing elements of drama and comedy that will take both kids and grown-ups on an amazing adventure.
With themes of wisdom, faith, and friendship woven into each story, you and your kids will be invited to use your imaginations to be part of building the story together. Whether you’re traveling or listening at home, we hope you enjoy these stories together, and may they spark conversations you’ll remember for years to come.
Miss Rory’s Story Emporium is brought to you by 252 Kids and Studio252.tv. 252 Kids is a monthly, web-based curriculum designed for kindergarten through fifth grade children. 252 Kids believes parents have an important job. In fact, it’s a job so important they deserve all the help they can get. We want to help kids K-5 and their families grow in wisdom, faith, and friendship by giving parents ideas, tools, and strategies to help them lead their kids through this significant time in their life.
Studio252.tv is a fun, kid-focused website filled with cues to help families grow in faith and character. It offers resources to help families connect at strategic times of the day and reinforce key biblical concepts through music, videos and activities.
Each week, we’ll pick a different cheese to try. We’ll learn a little about it, tell you if we like it, and maybe throw in a joke or two.
Are you brilliant? Okay, then explain your genius to a 12-year-old.
Bo Mabry takes a year off of school (6th grade exactly) to interview geniuses, er, pepper them with questions, until he can understand what they do.
Sure, you can make smart grown-ups understand what you do… but can you Dumb it Down?
His name has become a metaphor for one who will never grow old. Peter Pan by JM Barrie is the story of a boy who remains a boy while the world around him changes.
Sir James Mathew Barrie was a Scottish playwright and novelist whose works were received with great critical and commercial success in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He discovered the main inspiration for his creative genius in his friendship (and later guardianship) with the children of Arthur and Sylvia Llewellyn-Davies. The Llewellyn-Davies boys, five in number and related to the famous Du Maurier family, featured in many of Barrie’s stories and plays and some of these works were written specifically for them.
Peter Pan was first introduced as a character in one of Barrie’s stories, The Little White Bird in 1901. Consequently, he appeared in a few other stories and plays and finally in 1904 made his debut in a full length play, Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Following the phenomenal success of the play, Barrie transformed it into a novel in 1911 entitled Peter and Wendy.
Peter Pan is pure and delightful fantasy. Peter’s character is far from a “perfect child.” He is selfish, foolish, thoughtless and ignorant and this is where the real appeal of the book lies. Readers are preconditioned to believe that childhood and children must always be portrayed as good and innocent. However, Barrie portrays Peter in all his authentic humanity and that’s what makes him so endearing because we truly see ourselves in Peter Pan. The descriptions are fascinating in their detail and intricacy, the dialog and conversations are absolutely spot on and Neverland is a brilliant example of the Utopia we all seek in its perfection and completeness. Captain Hook is a truly evil villain, while Tinkerbell shines in all her haughty magic.
For readers who have only seen the saccharine sweet Disney version, the original Peter Pan may come as a surprise! Peter Pan cajoles Wendy Darling and two more boys to fly with him to Neverland to become the surrogate family of the Lost Boys there. A series of adventures follows, including scary encounters with Captain Hook and the vicious Tiger Lily.
In fact, many readers have found the tale to be quite a disturbing Victorian fantasy about motherhood and emotional immaturity. Whatever the interpretation, Peter Pan remains one of the most brilliant and definitive portrayals of childhood and children.
Oxford Classic Radio provides free streaming audio and MP3 downloads of classic mystery, suspense, and detective shows from the golden age of radio. Visit us at OxfordClassicRadio.com for more information.
The Familyman Show is to encourage dads in the best job there is…fathering.
Finally, a podcast for new dads! Stories to entertain and encourage dads and dads-to-be through amusing tales and lessons of one new dad’s journey to become a Manly Dad. Even “Dad Supporters” will enjoy the the crazy stories of fatherhood.
Betsy Stover talks with fellow parents about what their kids did that broke them and maybe even drove them to drink. Guests range from fellow comedians, to Hollywood directors, to Olympic athletes. There’s no advice and no judgement; just wild stories from the trenches of parenthood, and a reminder that we are all doing the best we can.
These brief historical and informational snippets about genealogy and history should encourage and help you advance your family tree.
Marcus and Angel are a married couple of 10 years, who relationship revolves around honesty, humor, and arguments (sometimes). Their on-screen chemistry caused their YouTube subscribers to insist they start a podcast tackling the topics and issues that everyday people are dealing with. Is This Going To Cause An Argument is in its 3 season with over 15K plays just on SoundCloud.
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