Posted by rskontos on October 7, 2007, at 21:00:09
In reply to Re: What is the silver lining...**trigger** » happyflower, posted by RealMe on October 7, 2007, at 20:50:32
Phillipa, as
a teacher, my specialty is early childhood education, go figure. Most children take out of fairy tales what they need and only that. IF they have been abused then the fairy tale can take on a different meaning and have different meaning and they can be working something out internally. Usually that is why a child will ask for a story to be read over and over and over again. Usually this story is helping them with something, maybe its a comfort, maybe it is something they can't verbalize. As educators we were taught to tell parents to continue reading the particualr story until they stopped asking. Most children like fairy tales because they don't usually get from them what adults do. If a child has been protected and nurtured as they should be fairy tales are tales of good versus evil nothing more nothing less. If they haven't not then they can mean more......That is from my children's lit class. And that is why parents are still encouraged to read fairy tales to children. In a perfect world and normal families they are ok, if read in the proper setting. Does that answer your question?
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