The great thing about telling stories in families and playgroups is that you can tell to small groups. This means that you can be a lot more intimate in your style, more specific and direct in your story content and be much more flexible in your response to your audience.The challenge however is that there is a tendency for these situations to be a lot less structured. Structure in places such as schools and kindergartens is created and maintained to cut down distractions and distracting behavio