Kids stories make no sense.
i'm serious. Consider Jack and the Beanstalk, which teaches the age old lesson that you should steal from large cannibalistic, well-to-do people by hiding in their ovens and pots.
The Pokey Little Puppy teaches kids to be slow (because that way you get all the desserts and are unaccountable for your actions, well, except for the last day, but who cares when that is. You've already eaten a weeks worth of desserts).
i'm fairly certain that the Billy Goats Gruff teaches kids to spit on toll-takers, and the Gingerbread Man says that cookies can give you the runs.
Now i'm kinda glad i don't have kids. i'd probably read them man pages. They don't make sense either, but at least they might teach them something useful.
Wead Bash, Daddy! Wead Bash!
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All of the Grimm stories really suck and are probably negative for kids in general. I was always partial to the Bug Bunny-ified versions of all of those stories anyway. There are lots of cool kids books out there now. An entire industry is built around the fact that I want my kid to be smarter than yours.
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If you want to guess the moral of any original Grimm fairy tale, STAY OUT OF THE GODDAMN WOODS is always a good place to start.
