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Monday, February 16, 2009
Snow White and Sleeping Beauty: Too scary for bedtime?
I’m heading out to South Vienna Elementary school Tuesday morning where the students are wearing their pajamas to mark National Bedtime Story Day.
We’ll have more on that later, including what bedtime favorites the children were treated to, but for now, I’m thinking about a survey I saw of British mothers a month or so ago about the decline of classic fairy tales at bedtime.
In the U.K., at least, parents are picking The Very Hungry Caterpillar or The Gruffalo over Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel or Hansel and Gretel.
According to the survey, the reasons parents cited for dropping the old tales include that the Wicked Witch in Snow White is too scary, Rapunzel is too dark, and Cinderella has to do all the housework.
Some parents said they wouldn’t read the fairy tales at all to their children, but others said they were just too inappropriate for bedtime.
What do you think? Are fairy tales too scary for bedtime?
Oh, and if you’re really in the mood for a spook, try googling “Original fairy tales.” Trust me - those aren’t the fairy tales my mother (and probably yours) told.
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