Fairy tales negatively affect children’s perception of reality.

Do you agree or
disagree?
It is generally believed that fairy tales could have an adverse bearing on children’s
outlooks on life. From my perspective, these stories do more good.
On the one hand, some people might opine that reading fairy tales might negatively
influences the perception of children. The rationale for this is such stories may lead
students to believe in a far-fetched world, where everything is possible, such as
flying and magic power. This could make children grow up becoming unrealistic
adults, without any understandings about real life. However, this line of reasoning is
not sound since children have many other sources of information. One of these can
be parents, who would dispel any unreasonable ideas of children and educate
them about real life’s affairs. In addition to parents, teachers are also likely to
provide children with valuable insights reflecting our world, ranging from history to
biography. Being exposed to such useful knowledge, children would grow out of the
imaginary world in fairy tales. Clearly, these stories would not distort children’s
perception of the real world.
On the other hand, fairy tales could have some substantial benefits on the outlooks
of children. One of the advantages is these stories have the power to give children
another way of looking at realities. That is because children could encounter a
mostly better world in fairy tales, with peace and happiness whereas the reality
might be rife with appalling problems, such as starvation, pandemic and hostility.
Therefore, children are apt to have more positive judgements of realities,
considering real life in a positive light. Another merit of reading fairy tales is the
valuable lessons imparted to children in many famous stories. One of these, to
exemplify, is the story of heroes being brave helping other people, which could
possibly teach boys to behave courageously in the real world. Another stories
might also educate girls about the roles of women in family with images about
mothers preparing meals, or cleaning the floor. Clearly, fairy tales would improve
children’s perception of real life.
In conclusion, the beliefs in life of children would not be adversely affected by fairy
tales given the education from other people. In my view, such stories are more
beneficial as they impart lessons and positivity to children.