Fairy tales serve very well to develop emotional resilience in young children in order to evaluate decide weigh and anticipate

A fairytale quarter of an hour of the pedagogical kind.

The natu­ral and syste­ma­tic deve­lo­p­ment of resi­li­ence is a respon­si­bi­lity of adults toward child­ren, until they go their own way. This does not only refer to illnesses through the deve­lo­p­ment of an intact immune system. Rather, resi­li­ence must also be deve­lo­ped when it comes to reco­gni­zing and weig­hing good and evil.

Of danger and joy. And that good always prevails. Many aspects of life must constantly be evalua­ted, deci­ded upon, and weig­hed, based on a lear­ned form of resi­li­ence. And fairy tales are a proven means, with great heroes and hero­i­nes. Even if, from the perspec­tive of today’s adults and parents, it may feel as though we are asking quite a lot of the very youngest.

Many fairy tales are filled with cruel­ties that might make one wonder whether they could perhaps be harmful. Or distur­bing. But if one trusts and belie­ves even the most modern pedago­gi­cal studies and analy­ses, fairy tales still fulfill their purpose in a truly magi­cal way.

The commu­ni­ca­tion of values through the fantasy world of fairy tales works. Moral and ethi­cal aspects of living toge­ther are also paved here. Appar­ently, we can entrust the youn­gest with far more than some might imagine. Looking back, narra­ti­ves such as fairy tales have long been connec­ted with educa­tion. In fact, they always have been. Much has chan­ged. Some things are outdated.

But fairy tales are still the most suita­ble means of deve­lo­ping important emotio­nal resilience.

They shar­pen the percep­tion of the youn­gest, enab­ling them to subcon­sciously reco­gnize more quickly what their intui­tion is telling them. This inner voice of intui­tion, accor­ding to rese­arch, has made the survi­val of huma­nity possi­ble in the first place. Being able to assess things before they happen. Initia­ting actions before one is obviously prompted to do so. Under­stan­ding and evalua­ting situa­tions and drawing conclu­si­ons from them.

And believe us, we are not telling you fairy tales now. This is the status quo of current findings on the pedago­gi­cal deve­lo­p­ment of our youn­gest, so that they too may one day become the stron­gest. Fairy tales are true encou­ra­gers, show­ing that even after terri­ble events, good is always waiting in the end. They convey secu­rity. And fairy­tale role models.

Fairy tales fulfill their purpose. So, there is much to tell.

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