IMPORTANCE OF

Fairytales
Fairy Tales teach what life is about.
• Young children do not always understand complex issues or ideas
about morals and fairy tales provide some basic lessons.
• Fairy tales also teach children strategies for dealing with scary
concepts such as death and abandonment.
• For example, “Cinderella” teaches children that sometimes a parent
dies and the other parent remarries.
• Modern generation : FROZEN,
teach emotions.
• Children have very strong emotions and often don’t know how to
express them.
• Fairy tale heroes and heroines have strong feelings as well, but they
are exaggerated for effect.
• The exaggeration makes the emotions funny, but also helps children
recognize the emotions in themselves.
• For example, in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” each dwarf has
a distinctive personality trait.
Actions have consequences
• Fairy tales teach children what good people and bad people are like.
• As well, fairy tales teach what happens when people are good or bad.
Good actions are rewarded and bad actions are punished.
• For example, in “Beauty and the Beast” the Beast is turned into a
horrible creature as punishment for being vain and cruel.
 how to be strong and resourceful
• The children in fairy tales often need to think of creative ways to save
themselves from dangerous or emotionally upsetting situations.
• The stories teach these strategies to children.
• For example, in “Hansel and Gretel” the two children must find their
way out of a forest and stop an evil witch.