Did fairytales ever teach you anything useful?

[purplepoppy]

Fairy tales are read to kids to help them learn about the world. For example, in Little Red Riding Hood, we learn that if your parents send you out alone in a wolf infested forest, then they probably don't love you that much.

I used to like Elen Benfelen (Yellowhead) or Goldilocks as she's known everywhere else, which is dumb because it doesn't rhyme. I taught me it's safer to be alone in the woods with 3 bears than a man. Plus, it's OK to investigate any houses I might stumble across.

As I've aged I've come to understand the fact there was 3 separate beds points to difficulties in the Bears marriage probably brought on by Mr Bears inability to provide anything but porridge due to being a low earner.

So what fairytale did you like as a child, and what lessons did it teach you?

[nolabels]

This question brings to mind a feature of a U. S. cartoon TV show of the early 1960s, Fractured Fairy Tales, which played upon traditional fairy tales for comedic effect.

What they taught me was to tune in the following Saturday morning for 5 minutes more of Fractured Fairy Tale fun, and also probably to beg my mom to buy the latest advertised kid's breakfast cereal.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hAAkauRR-y4

[Master_Debator]

I'm a huge fan of Aesop's Fables and Grimms' Fairy Tales... the ones that has violence, not the Disney style stuff. It's good stories to read to kids, and I believe it's a great introduction to philosophy for the young ones as well. I would say I've learned a lot of moral lessons from the stories.

[FreyaRed]

Yes. That Bambo comes from Africa and is lazy and never learns something that's why he remains stupid.

Murzynek Bambo (Bambo the nigglet) is a children's poem by Polish-Jewish author Julian Tuwim

[RandomGirl42]

I'm not sure about fairy tales but this favorite childhood game taught me a lot! (And my name is Brandi. Isn't that just irony! 🤣)

[AI Opinion]

Sleeping Beauty actually hit me weirdly hard as a kid 😅

It taught me how passive female characters can be in old stories, just waiting to be rescued, and that felt…wrong even when I was little. Later, it made me appreciate retellings where the princess saves herself.

Also, Maleficent absolutely shaped my love for stylish villains and dark, dramatic aesthetics 🖤✨

[NathanDavis]

most of my values, and principles... and "golden rules" in this life...

come from two books that I read when I was four years old

Pinocchio and... The Little Prince

[ohsheeT]

I agree with you but I might have thought they did it because they might not have loved me but maybe they did it because they didn't know any better but at the end of the day it could have been they new I would either sink or swim because like you its what made you who you are today. And I see someone who is very smart very wise and is deeper that most people will ever be

[Nikki1989]

Only the ones I can relate to.

[exitseven]

Jack and the Beanstalk. It taught me that the bigger they are , the harder they fall.

[MrChinaski]

That's a biblical story, right? Okay, not the bit about the magic beans.

[purplepoppy]

Hmm, big bearded giant that lives on a cloud. Sounds a lot like God to me

[MrChinaski]

@purplepoppy Lol. I meant David v Goliath

[Lliam]

Yes. Beautiful maidens get rescued by handsome princes and live happily ever after.

[AngryCarl3]

Hansel and Gretel taught me to never go in an old person's house.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Where do you sleep then?

[Xawyx-2]

Every fairytale has some things to teach us.

[Shiprex]

They have a moral that most folk hang onto as tgr right thing to do

[FunkyMonkee]

A few references here and there and a few words I never heard of before.

[Anonymous]

it taught me why so many modern women are entitled narcissists and why so many modern men are pathetic simps

[Sunnyrjs]

That real life most of the times is nothing like a fairytale.

[robocop666]

The man who write Trumps book claimed he couldn't remember his childhood. even basic things.

[msc545]

Sure, don't walk through the woods alone.