Are classic fairy tales too violent for today's children?

[bitheerani319]

A recent study showed that millions of parents around the world are changing the endings of classic fairy tales, most commonly Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Pigs, and Hansel and Gretel, because they believe they are too cruel, politically incorrect, or think they will give children nightmares.

I first encountered this phenomenon of the modern and politically correct era when I read a lament on a social network from a modern mother who first explained that she sings Robbie Williams songs to her child instead of lullabies because she loves Robbie, but not lullabies and doesn't know the words to them, and by the way, she considers them outdated.

She then went on to explain why she refuses to read classic fairy tales to australia whatsapp list child and how, no less, everything from The Little Mermaid to Sleeping Beauty should be banned. Why? Because classic fairy tales are cruel, politically incorrect, chauvinistic, or in some way encourage aggression and undesirable behavior.

At first I laughed, then I was horrified, and after a very short time, I started thinking about the claim that had prompted hundreds of thousands of likes and just as many comments, both from people who agreed with the statement and those who aggressively spat on it and imposed their own views.

Since I don't like anything aggressive, least of all the imposition of opinions, I didn't agree with any of the divided groups, but the topic prompted me to think intensely and conclude that I will never reach a conclusion because everyone has and doesn't have a right, including me.

I grew up on fairy tales, mostly Andersen's and the Brothers Grimm. First they read them to me, and then I read them myself. Every day, several times, from beginning to end. Some fairy tales are forever etched in my memory. Some I could recite from A to Z, forward and backward.

I never thought too much about them, nor did I seek a higher meaning, point, or conclusion. I did not seek or receive a moral of the story, nor did I learn anything from them except perhaps a richer vocabulary and creative thinking, but they did not make me violent, aggressive, or storm into school armed with a semi-automatic rifle.

But, when I started thinking about them more intensely, I concluded that fairy tales are extremely violent stories that I am convinced would never find a publisher in this day and age, at least not in their original form, regardless of their points, morals, or quality.

No, classic fairy tales could never be printed today, sold in millions of copies, read to children before bedtime for sweet and beautiful dreams, and even less adapted into countless cartoon and film versions. And we are like the modern age in which everything passes. Or not?