Let's all just make it up as we go along.
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Researchers have decided that age-old fairy tales such as Cinderella (search) and Snow White (search) contain so many stereotypes that they are just as harmful to children’s psyches as the misogynist, violent, drug-addled videos of current popular culture.



The Press Association reports that researchers in America found that the tales passed down since the 1800s put too much emphasis on physical beauty and could harm kids’ self-esteem as a result.

"There is a lot of association between beauty and goodness and then conversely between ugliness and evil and laziness," said study co-author Liz Grauerholz.

Grauerholz tells HealthDayNews that parents should change the stories. Tell Cinderella to your child as if she were male. Or change the ending so she decides the prince wasn't right for her after all and lived happily ever after by making her own life.

Sylance

i like your posts.

No way.... I refuse to hear that! A liberal likes my post? I must re-evaluate my opinions… I’d hate to be a closet liberal. /please see the sarcasm here/

If there had been psychologists in Shakespeare's time, he would have recommended killing them right after the lawyers.

Read the Dr. Seuss instead!

BTW, Reading to a child is about the best thing you can do for their intellectual development.

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The only time I ever got read to was when I was read my Miranda rights. X

I have such fond memories of my mother reading me THE RIOT ACT!

...and look how well you turned out X.

I think people think to much.

It is what it is and it was what it was and its always somebody elses fault that kids is screwed up because they had wacked out parents.

Ok, I have to go now. I have to work two jobs to so I can make sure the kids have everything they want because we cant deprive them of such things all the while sheltering them from the REAL world that is full of all sorts of crap that they wont know how to deal with when they reach adulthood. All the while trying to reason with them while they pitch a fit cuz they cant have a pony in the city.

But Ill be DAMNED if Im going to let them watch Snow White!

That actually makes something my sister told me make sense. She called me, dying of laughter, the day she took her 5 year old daughter to see Shrek. At the "happy" ending her daughter started crying because she thought for sure the princess was going to end up beautiful in the end instead of an ogre. I thought that was funny. Shows just how much emphasis we do place on looks. Well, I do anyway. I realize I'm probably shallower than most.

I didn't have the heart to tell her "don't worry kiddo, the princess will find a guy that's had too much to drink and he'll think she's beautiful. At least until morning"

Let's not even mention Disney's "Song of the South"