Have you ever wondered why the parents read to their children fairy tales? This is not just for fun; children's stories are of great importance for the development of creativity and imagination. The child learns so much, just listening to a parent read the book to him. He begins to understand the meaning of concepts such as good and evil, and learn to apply these concepts in everyday life. In fairy tales there are many other functions.
Tales show the children how to cope with problems
Even adults often use in their life strategy of behavior fairy-tale characters. This is quite natural, because the tales encrypted real life events - in an exaggerated, the fantastic form. In fairy tales, anyone can find their own dreams, fears, difficulties, and tips on how to cope with them.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that they exist. Tales tell us that dragons can be killed. "
Tales develop emotional stability
In most fairy tales the hero finally overcomes evil antagonist (with rare exceptions). Babies useful to know that every person can happen bad things, until they themselves are still safe - lie in bed and listen to the voice of a loved one. Why is this important? Because no one is immune from the difficulties and dangers, and the child need to understand this before he will face real problems. Children's stories help to figuratively build mental muscles, due to which the child begins to panic as soon understand that the world is not as safe as it seemed before. Fully protect the child from unpleasant information - hence limit its development, but also to tell him about the problems of the world are too realistic, too, it is not necessary, so the fairy tale - the perfect option for the preparation of neutral little man to life.
Language Development
In fairy tales found a lot of words and phrases that people seldom use in their everyday speech. Listening to the tale, the child automatically remembers them, his vocabulary is expanding and he unconsciously begins to understand how to build a variety of grammatical constructions.
Tales erase cultural boundaries
Analogs of a fairy tale of Cinderella and a number of other popular tales exist in many countries. Listening to these tales as a child, we learn the same things, even if we live in different hemispheres.
Understanding the basics of building plot
Through fairy tales, children begin to understand the patterns of construction of the plot, to distinguish between the eyeballs, the culmination and denouement, and anticipate the scenarios in more unfamiliar stories. All this is very conducive to the development of creative and analytical thinking.
Tales allow parents to teach children to think critically
Not necessarily just to read a child a fairy tale and provide himself to think of their meaning; ask them to reflect on the subject. For example, you can speculate with how Cinderella's father was right, when it allows new wife and her daughters to exploit his own daughter. Perhaps the two of you come to the conclusion that it is - just a weak man, but in life should have acted very differently. Or, for example, a fairy tale about the Little Mermaid: Encourage your child (especially if it's a girl) to think about whether to go for the sake of the man she loved to make such sacrifices, which agreed to the heroine? You can share with your child to do the analysis of acts of fairy tale characters and various subplots that the child began to understand that each text can be viewed from different angles, and from it we can make a variety of conclusions.
What tales for your child by age
Choose a fairy tale should be based on the level of development of the child, not of his age. Someone develops faster, some - slowly, but here are just average recommendations for different age groups. If you notice that your three year old tale about a turnip is not interested, you can read fairy tales with more complex plots.
"Turnip" and "Hen-Ryaba" - the most suitable tales for children in this age group. Many young children like and the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Sweet Porridge"; You can read other tales with a simple plot. It is important that the fairy tale was not difficult to understand, or the child will quickly become bored.
Kids this age will suit tale with more complex subjects, but they should be fairly positive, without a lot of suffering and trials, borne by the hero. Suit tales such as "The Three Bears," "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids", "The Three Little Pigs."
Preschoolers can read the most famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians," "Snow White," and so on; Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen," "The Tinder Box", "Emperor's New Clothes," "The Princess and the Pea", and others.
- Children older than 6 years
At this age, many children experience stress from their childhood in a sense ends - they have to go to school, they have baby teeth fall out
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, They are expected to increasingly independent. To better cope with stress
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, Have a child read fairy tales, the heroes of which successfully cope with them dropped out tests, such as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel", "The Wild Swans". If the child is already good and happy reading, it can take and more voluminous fairy tales such as "The Chronicles of Narnia," "The Hobbit," "Harry Potter." The main thing - do not encourage your child to read if he does not have this particular inclination; develop a love of reading slowly, and do not forget to read the tales aloud to your child - it's very useful, even if the child is able to read for a long time.
