Fairy Tale Essentials
Children begin hearing fairy tales at a very early age. The are stories that can be told, read aloud from a book, and of course, seen as a movie. What is the purpose of a fairy tale? According to Bettelheim, fairy tales show children that if one faces life’s obstacles, one can overcome them.
These stories, characters and experiences remind us of ourselves and address issues of everyday life. As children learn and hear fairy tales, they know to expect a magical event or phenomenon that seems a valid part of human life, although, of course, it cannot be.6
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