Albert Einstein once said, “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Today, you’ll find that fairy tales are written in almost every language. They provide a nice and interesting way to introduce a child to that language. By listening to fairy tales, children also enhance their problem solving skills. The stories like Cinderella, and beauty and the beast, show children how to have a positive outlook amidst any anxieties, battles and problems in life. Fairy tales also play a crucial role in the development of a child’s imagination. They enrich the world of any child, enrich the imagination, and introduce a sense of wonder. It’s the developed sense of wonder that sparks curiosity which leads to exploration of new plant species, cultures, or black holes. Even Albert Einstein knew this as he is known to have said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.”
While fairy tales help in the development of a child, they are unable to affect their perception of reality. This can be proven by taking our own lives as an example. We all read fairy tales but were they successful in affecting our perception of reality? No. When children grow up, they gradually realize that fairy tales don’t occur in the real world. Also, there are always our elders to make us realize that.
So, today, I talked about the benefits of fairy tales in the development of a child and then I talked about how they are unable to have an influence on our thinking of the real world. It is because of these reasons that I firmly believe that fairy tales do not affect children’s perception of reality.
