The result of that mistake is obvious, listening to the story teaches guessing: children often want to hear the story they like.  This is because once a story is introduced, children use it to test their growing ability to listen carefully to the story.  

Naturally this verification happens inadvertently.  The children enjoy watching the story for the second or third time so that they can make their own predictions about what will happen next.  The joy of getting one’s guess right is the reward that an experienced listener gets while listening to a story.  And it’s not just fun, it builds confidence in the child’s ability to guess.  

Such confidence plays a vital role in a child’s overall development, especially in the development of reading ability.  Reading ability is the biggest challenge for the first two standards of school.  The role of estimation in the development of literacy and reading is discussed in detail in the book ‘Bachche Ki Bhasha aur Adhyapak’. 

The same thing happens in the story of the rabbit and the lion.  As the children listen to the stories, they grasp the rules and this grasp sharpens their ability to guess.  

The story is an area of our world: I’m talking about the world we carry in our heads or minds. The story has an area to the world in the sense that through them we can identify people and situations with whom we are never going to connect.