Comment by Aloisius
2 months ago
Sure, but classic folktales weren't intended for children. They were stories largely for adults.
Indeed, the Grimm brothers did not intend their books for children initially. They were supposed to be scholarly works, but no one seems to have told the people buying the books who thought they were tales for children and complained that the books weren't suitable enough for children.
Eventually they caved to pressure and made major revisions in later editions, dropping unsuitable stories, adding new stories and eventually illustrations specifically to appeal to children.
>Sure, but classic folktales weren't intended for children. They were stories largely for adults.
Really?
Stories with child ignores parents and they get hurt were made of adults ?
i was not talking about stories where udnead creatures come at night and kill your very young baby.
> Stories with child ignores parents and they get hurt were made of adults ?
Yes. They're not stories about their children after all.
And of course, most of them didn't involve children getting hurt because they ignored their parents. Some were hurt for no reason or because their parent's mistake, others aren't about children at all.
You have no idea what you I am talking about, you probably read a very few folk stories by those Grimm brothers and now you generalize to the rest of the world.
I gave you example of 100% story that is for children you can Google and translate "Punguta cu doi bani" or "Capra cu trei iezi"
Romanian children have the ability to read or watch those stories without suffering debilitating mental conditions like some american children or their parents more likely.