Gordon has a book entitled "Treasury of Bedtime Stories" it includes all the classic fairy tales such as The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, The Little Red Hen, The Ugly Duckling and so forth. Lately, Gordon has requested a story from this book every night (and occasionally after lunch or during Edison's naptime). Chris and I have both noticed these so called classics do not have very good morals to them.
Henny Penny - this "mother" hen enlists all her friends to help her tell the king the sky is falling and when a fox comes along she ditches her friends, runs home and leaves them all to be eaten by the fox. What a great friend.
Puss in Boots - the moral of this story - lie about who you are and you will be rich, marry a beautiful princess, and live happily ever after. Great life lesson I want my son to learn.
Jack and the Beanstalk - now this naughty little boy is something else. He robs a giant not once, not twice, but three times. AND after this man's wife feeds him supper TWICE!! This poor giant does nothing to Jack. In the end...he KILLS the giant.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - talk about disturbing. The Pied Piper takes all the children when the mayor won't pay him his money! What a greedy little son of a gun.
Rumpelstiltskin - "Hey, I can spin staw into gold; marry me!"
It is so funny when I read Three Billy Goats Gruff to Gordon, when the troll gets tossed into the river and "was never seen again" he'll go, "ooohh" like he's all sad. Everytime. Never fails. Hilarious.
4 comments:
Good point! Fairytales. Ha!
Bridget has a book about the Elves and the Shoemaker... the Elves are naked (the shoemaker and his wife make clothes for them at the end) AND the lesson there - if you leave something else half done someone else will come and finish it for you.
Isn't that the truth! We always talk about how almost every single Disney movie has some sort of Disfunctional Family...such a good point...but we still watch or read them anyways!
I love the analysis...I think YOU should write a book with your analysis. this could be like your dissertation. but really, I love it and it was totally making me laugh not just because it's funny but because I was honestly JUST thinking that about Kennedy's books two nights ago. She loves princesses and fairy tales and all that and at the end I kinda add a little reality check i.e. "but she was happy because she was really nice to everyone and listened to her parents" or if it's a story where the character is rude I always add "ooohh...but she was pretty rude wasn't she to so and so and in doing this... that's rude of her" lol. kid's stories. ay chihuahua (my new catch phrase, feel free to use it. ; )
hahahah never considered the extreme lack of values one could teach their child with such stories! Hilarious to read your opinion on this! hahah
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