Welcome to our writing challenge "New Skills"

Your prompt:

For children, it's sometimes hard to keep up with everything the world throws at them. But then, developing a new skill may be exciting and help overcome a bad situation...

And these are the rules:

Your story must be suited for children under 10 years of age.

It can be a maximum of 1500 words long, must fit the prompt and be written in English, Spanish, French or German.

The time limit for this challenge is Sunday, 22nd of August 2021.

Publish the story on your profile, either as a stand-alone story or a chapter in an existing anthology. Only one chapter, please!

To submit your entry, please post the link to your story in the comments below this chapter and fill this submission form.

Happy writing!