I don't know if this always holds true, but I have to unlearn the foundations of what I know about good storytelling for my kid.
I think that any story, to feel complete and satisfying, needs a conflict that gets resolved.
And sure, you can play with what it means for there to be a conflict. And there's plenty of different theories about what conflicts are most satisfying, like whether overcoming an obstacle is "conflict" or if the resolution needs to change the characters or even if there have to be "characters"...
That's neither here nor there.
My kiddo doesn't want conflict in his hand-crafted stories. To him, a story is an opportunity for daddy to describe fantastical places and people that he and his friends can experience. When I present an obstacle, he requests that I either go back and say it wasn't there or that it isn't actually an obstacle. This is interesting. Firstly, I love this approach as a life approach. There's no obstacles, just opportunities. But secondly, I want to just live in the world, man. I don't need to overcome shit. Let me pet a horse and then look at the sunset and then go to bed, wake up, and kiss my wife.
I don't know if we can tell each other stories with no conflict or whatever. Things can happen and no one needs to solve a problem. You just get on the space ship and go there.
The other interesting thing is that he is learning, I imagine, is that every story ends with "and then Lochlan and his friends went to sleep"
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