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A real fairy story.
Opens with an every day event.
Transforms itself into a supernatural situation and allows children to deal with real psychological developmental questions by presenting them in a remote and symbolic form.
It is a vital step to full maturity and an ability to deal with lifes other questions and ambiguities.
They don't have illustrations and listen closely here children.
This is a story that is best told to a child in your own voice
They always have a happy ending.
The purpose is not to rely on a happy ending but to let them know that the hero/heroine will always emerge triumphant as long as they persevere and believe in the outcome.
Acquiring the ability to workout your own vision of what is happening in the world in this way becomes a powerful tool to mastering yourself and the natural world.
q.e.d.
So that is the value of fairy stories and those who scoff or would work out some psychological
reality/rational theory and present it to the child as a problem are totally misguided.
The same goes for those who would tell the story by illustrations and thus prevent the child from using their own imaginations.
Is all this clear enough.
I hope so.
The Uses Of Enchantment.
Bruno Bettelhiem.
Opens with an every day event.
Transforms itself into a supernatural situation and allows children to deal with real psychological developmental questions by presenting them in a remote and symbolic form.
It is a vital step to full maturity and an ability to deal with lifes other questions and ambiguities.
They don't have illustrations and listen closely here children.
This is a story that is best told to a child in your own voice
They always have a happy ending.
The purpose is not to rely on a happy ending but to let them know that the hero/heroine will always emerge triumphant as long as they persevere and believe in the outcome.
Acquiring the ability to workout your own vision of what is happening in the world in this way becomes a powerful tool to mastering yourself and the natural world.
q.e.d.
So that is the value of fairy stories and those who scoff or would work out some psychological
reality/rational theory and present it to the child as a problem are totally misguided.
The same goes for those who would tell the story by illustrations and thus prevent the child from using their own imaginations.
Is all this clear enough.
I hope so.
The Uses Of Enchantment.
Bruno Bettelhiem.
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