Fairy tales are confusing for children and will give them the wrong ideas about what they can/can’t do. Because of Little Red Riding Hood, a little girl or even boy might not want to walk through the woods; the wolf might be waiting around to eat someone! “If I kiss a frog will he turn into a prince?” What are children supposed to believe? When they grow up reading these stories it teaches them morals along with things parents don’t want their children to think. The children don’t know any better not to believe the wolf isn’t going to eat them or they aren’t going to eat a poison apple and fall to sleep until the prince rescues them. Are they going to know that when they

die they aren’t going to come back after somebody casts a magic spell on them? The answer is no. They aren’t taught in the fairy tales not to believe them and to not think that they are real.

Finally, fairy tales are not good for children because of the violence presented. Death plays a big part in these stories and murder is usually the factor. When the hunter kills the human-like wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, he might be doing a good thing for her and her grandmother, but he is violently killing a living thing and it is rewarded by thanks from them. Children grow up thinking it is okay to kill someone/something that has done something “bad” in his/her eyes. The evil stepmother in Snow White poisons Snow White. When a child is jealous of something/someone they are going to think to get rid of it/him/her either by killing or poisoning. In every fairy tale, there is an example of death or some sort of action that hurts a living thing. Kids learn from these stories and they are learning negative things; whether you ca

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