Comment by xxs
3 days ago
> a majority of them are most certainly not appropriate for kid
I did enjoy them as kid - as sad as they were. Many years after I can't think of a reason to consider them: "most certainly not appropriate". That's being overprotective.
In the light of the current events - they should introduce an age check verification to readers, right?
I agree with you that OP is being overprotective, but its natural that we all draw slightly different lines about what's appropriate when.
FWIW, when (spoiler alerts) the little girl gets her feet cut off in red shoes my 8 and 10 year olds were shocked at the turn events, but hardly shaken. Likewise when the little match girl died in the cold they were sad, but not permanently so.
It's the same deal with grimm fairy tales, or even pinocchio (pinocchio gets hanged).
Or the little mermaid, where she failed to get the prince to fall in love with her and fell into the sea, dying and turning into sea foam.
She doesn’t turn into sea foam though, she turns into an air spirit, getting the chance of an immortal soul, which is what she was after.
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I think that’s basically the ending in the Czech film version too
>grimm fairy tales
Indeed, Max and Moritz ending up in the meat grinder (literally). Also reminds me of 'little riding red hood' originally lacks a happy ending at any rate.
(As for age, I think I was 6-7 when I first read Han C. Andersen)
“Max and Moritz” is not Grimm but Wilhelm Busch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz
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Those are absolutely horrific endings. They would have given me nightmares as a kid. I guess if your kids can handle it then great there's no need to coat them in bubble wrap.
> They would have given me nightmares as a kid.
This is not always the easiest thing to guess. The things that gave me nightmares were people looking at me through mirrors (i.e., Snow White), animal brutality (which featured prominently in 90s family movies), and adoption (i.e. getting adopted into the "wrong", abusive family). Meanwhile I ingested astonishingly violent material and slept like a baby. I think it's hard to figure out what kids will identify as fantasy and what they'll see as a real, yet-unknown risk.
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