Because I feel now day childern are more interested in reality more than stories.
2007-01-22 17:03:54 · 13 answers · asked by suman e 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I know what you mean. I used to enjoy fairy tales growing up. They made me think.
I think people are just too busy now to read fairy tales to their children.Times have sure changed.
2007-01-22 17:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by ♨ Wisper ► 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think children still believe in fantasies but, unlike with fairy tales, it's disguised as reality. Look at how many e-mail messages we get that can be disproven with a quick reference to Snopes.com! Those stories, from the Neiman Marcus cookie incident to the lie that Febreeze is deadly to pets, are fictions like fairy tales, but I think they're more dangerous.
2007-01-23 02:42:38 · answer #2 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairy Tales were the "Halloween" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" of their time. The versions we are used to have been sanitized. In their original forms they are gross and frightening, in a way that Hollywood hasn't quite caught up to.
Even in the later copy tales, like Hans Christian Anderson, this type of gruesomeness was evident, for instance:
After getting her wish for legs, the Little Mermaid commits suicide because it feels like walking on knives.
I am way more concerned with keeping the religious fairy tales away from our kids - they are really scary
2007-01-23 02:04:56 · answer #3 · answered by Gordon M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairy tales come from real stories. Their meant to teach. Real life does the same thing, but ut a much more harsh way. Let me ask you, as an adult, do you remember any childhood fairy tales.
2007-01-23 01:13:32 · answer #4 · answered by JENNIFER M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairy tales are valuable in a number of ways. If you'd like to examine how they work, read Bruno Bettelheim's "The Uses of Enchantment."
2007-01-23 11:55:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use fairy tales to teach my nieces and nephews values. Like the tale of the soldier who waited outside the window of a beautiful princess that he loved for ninety days at her request since she wanted him to prove himself to her. After standing in the rain and snow, heat and cold, for the length of time she requested, at the end the soldier didn't want her anymore. He felt that if she could watch him there day after day suffering that way, she wasn't the woman for him, since she was heartless to his ordeal. I don't remember who it was that wrote that particular story, but I read it as a child and always remembered it.
2007-01-26 22:40:43 · answer #6 · answered by sustasue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairy tales are reality in the making. Fairy tales are the unknown. "From the unknown lead us to the known; From darkness lead us to light; From death lead us to immortality". Who said this??
2007-01-23 01:17:38 · answer #7 · answered by Kool-kat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Grimm's Grimmest about fairy tales. You will see that they were not originally for kids.
2007-01-23 05:21:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the book "story teller " of a writer nick naming saki
2007-01-26 12:19:38 · answer #9 · answered by Nijin K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If their parents teach them the difference, between make believe and real, I think the only thing it encourages is their imagination.
2007-01-23 02:04:46 · answer #10 · answered by jennifer p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋