Fairy Tales & Children Fables

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★ election of the best children's fables to read with your children.

✔ Not everyone believes in the importance of Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales for kids. In fact, 25% of parents recently surveyed said they wouldn’t read Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales to a child under five years old because they didn’t teach a good lesson or were too scary. Many of you shared your opinion about this on Facebook and please comment here, too I want to hear your thoughts!

✔ The fairy tale survey, quoted in this UK’s Telegraph article shared the top ten Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales parents don’t read and why. Reading through the list of reasons, I can only conclude that these parents have lost their reasoning skills –completely. For example the reason not to read Goldilocks is that sends a message to steal. Hardly. If anything, the message is don’t break into houses because a family of bears might live there.

✔ If you want your children to be intelligent, read them Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales.

Albert Einstein

1. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales Show Kids How to Handle Problems

We learn from the characters in stories, even as adults. They help us because we connect to our own lives, dreams, anxieties, and consider what we would do in their shoes. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales help children learn how to navigate life. (Bettelheim, B. Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales.)

Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G.K. Chesterton

2. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales Build Emotional Resiliency

Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales show real life issues in a fantastical scenario where most often the hero triumphs. (Except in Grimm originals.) Children need to discover in a safe environment that bad things happen to everyone. Because guess what? No one in life is immune from challenges — so we need to build capacity in our children. Do we build emotional muscles so our children can hang on during tough times or do we shelter our kids, protecting them, leaving them so weak they can’t handle anything requiring strength?

3. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales Give Us a Common Language (Cultural Literacy & Canon)

Neil Gaiman writes, “We encounter fairytales as kids, in retellings or panto. We breathe them. We know how they go.”

4. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales Cross Cultural Boundaries

Many cultures share common Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales like Cinderella, with their own cultural flavor. We read the versions and know we all share something important, the need to make sense of life with story, and the hope for good to triumph over evil.

5. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales Teach Story

Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales are understanding the basics of story — setting, characters, and plot (rising action, climax, and resolution) as well as the difference between fiction and non-fiction. Once a child understands story, it supports his ability to make predictions and comprehend other stories he’s reading.

6. Fairy Tales, Fables for Children and Classic Tales Develop a Child’s Imagination
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein