Fairy tales

i think fairy tales teach imagination and i think its plays a very important role in a childs life and its fun and to hear the fairy tales they come up with are even greater than telling them to my chilren!

Reading fairy tales to our kids is a great and fun way of teaching them good from the bad. It may all be fantasy but the lesson is still there. It is always that the Good always triumph over evil. And no matter how great the obstacles are in the story it always ends up that they live happy ever after. I know that life is not a fairytale so to speak but kids are an exemption. Let's make their lives be like a fairytale for a little while until they found out that reality do bite sometimes.

Fairy tales have a great role in developing a child's imagination. Also, it can contain moral teachings and even some info on the nature. So, in my opinion fairy tales must play their part in a child's education.

i do not see anything wrong with fairy tales. it teaches the children a lot of values and to dream and hope for the best despite all the adversities in life. for one, it teaches us to be patient, never be vindictive nor to harbor anger at anyone - that's for cinderella. where her good deeds got all paid for towards the end of the story. for hansel and gretel, it is the need to be wise in order to be able to come out unharmed in times of trouble. for snowhite, it has to be good natured at all times and to be friendly. i know, that i cannot possibly talk about the values and the morals that we can get from these fairy tales at length. but for me, fairy tales are good for children to hear.

This is a valid question, as I have noticed some Fairy Tales actually scare my four year old, certian versions of the three little pigs can seem quite scary for younger children. The version of little red riding hood where the Grandma gets eaten and then the wolf is chopped open by the woodsman is also quite a scary story. I always use to think they were nice until I read them now and realize what they are really about. My son who is only four even says that Goldilocks is bad, He doesn't like that she steals their food and breaks baby bears chair. The stories do have a moral in a round about kind of way but I think that older children more so than younger children will be able to see that. I still think that they are something to be passed on as they are in a sense history, the way stories use to be told. I just think that even though the seemed to be aimed at the younger children, that in fact it is the older kids that could study and in a way learn about what the author was trying to say. I agree that they do talk about the not so nice characteristics of people. As far as introducing them into our childrens literary education, I think in the 10 and up age group they are old enough to know right and wrong and look at the different ways that it is represented in a lot of the fairy tales, but then if you have a kid who is four and not scared of the Big bad wolf in three little pigs, then it is a personal choice. My son does like certain versions of this, the one were the pigs all run to the next house and all survive. It would be a shame not to have them passed down.

Most of us are products of fairly tale stories, but we are better persons, I suppose. For me, fairy tales like Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc. are literary pieces for children to enjoy . They make parents spend quality time with their children in bedtime stories; they bring children in a world of fantasy, hence helps enhance creativity, imagination, as well as other values taught by them. Like Little Red Riding Hood, the value of strong family ties, Pinocchio, the value of telling the truth and so on. Sometimes, if you wish to teach children values, these fairy tales could be powerful tools because they're the language that children understand. If ever I have my grandchildren, I would still like them to be hearing fairy tales, and learn lessons from them.