Children can be prepared for serious conversations from a young age with the books you read together. Such a conversation will not cause embarrassment to either parents or children, because it logically follows from what you read.
Any reading suitable for his age is useful for the child. But fairy tales are one of the most powerful and versatile tools. They are suitable for very little ones who are more interested in bright pictures and the sound of the voices of their beloved parents.
Fairy tales will also interest preschoolers, who learn the episodes they like by heart. And schoolchildren who better perceive the text with prompts and leading questions will also be interested in this genre.
Fairy tales are a rational contribution to a child's emotional intelligence. Using the examples of beloved characters and notorious villains, the little reader learns to empathize and react to injustice, forgive and hope for retribution. One fairly long book can serve as a guide for many years.
A fairy tale requires spectacular events and conflicts. The plot and tension are based on external difficult situations. Each of us can face some of them, others are possible only in a fairytale reality. But an older child can easily draw an analogy with ordinary life.
For example, Daisy and Bertie are starving and forced to wander in unfamiliar lands - how easy it is to understand these adversities! It is more difficult to imagine how evil ministers manage to deceive the inhabitants of the kingdom for a long time and keep them in fear. But with the proper imagination, you can find options for deception in our life with you.
Internal conflicts are just as important as external ones, and they lead to the most difficult conversations. For example, it is very difficult to understand how a person's character can change during illness or depression.
A kind and talented carpenter, separated from his family, sits in prison and goes crazy, because he is forced to go against his conscience and do what will help to deceive people. This is already a topic for conversation with a schoolboy who has become skilled in book conversations.
Younger children will be much more understandable about internal conflicts, for example, a coward-king who is afraid to show his weakness.
No matter how complex a fairy tale may be, it should remain kind, with a good message for the child. It doesn’t have to be the clearly articulated morality that squeezed so much in the children's literature of the Soviet period. The main thing is that there is always hope for a good outcome of any bad situation.
Even if at first glance it seems that it is impossible. No matter how much the main characters of "Ikabog" suffer, we see: when they do not lean on the side of evil and do not give up, things gradually begin to improve. The charming baker, even in prison, bakes delicious muffins and cheers other prisoners with songs.
Daisy, who got to the orphanage, does not forget her name and protects the younger children. And the best illustration of the concept of hope is the monster itself - Ikabog. He gives birth to good children, if he was treated kindly, and evil, accordingly, in the opposite situation.
So if we all become kinder, then our fictional monsters will also switch to the bright side. The development of such a long and exciting plot, the child will wait with bated breath. And when he grows up, he will gladly re-read the book on his own.
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