A fairy tale is one of the most amazing creations of folk fantasy. Appearing in immemorial times, it is still loved by children today: from the smallest to the very grown up. As soon as your child learns letters, learns to read, books with fairy tales become his most dear and beloved friends.
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If your baby is excessively mischievous or squeamish, if he does not want to eat such useful semolina or go to bed, in most situations it is short children's fairy tales that will help calm down the out of control child. Why short? Because you need to calm the child quickly. In large-volume works, as a rule, the narrative is leisurely, the change of events occurs slowly. But short children's tales capture from the very first lines, leading them into the world of adventures and unusual heroes.
When reading together, be sure to pay attention to the victory of good over evil. So you lay the first moral criteria in your child, form the belief that misconduct is punished, and it is better to be benevolent and honest than malicious. Just do not transfer the assessment of the heroes to the children themselves and do not stick labels on the kids. Do not scare them with threats that for disobedience the wolf will come and eat or Baba Yaga will take him to his hut. From early childhood, a child should be imbued with the poetic world of a fairy tale, the atmosphere of a miracle, and not fear. You don’t want to instill a lot of complexes in your daughter or son!
Rhythmic base
It would be nice if the works contained rhymed strings. Children remember them, developing their speech and memory. Even better, if short children's stories are written in poetic form, such as, for example, the
works of Chukovsky, Zakhoder, Mikhalkov. Your children can remember them entirely. Then parents get the opportunity to organize a new form of joint play - role retelling. Such activities are very useful for both adults and toddlers. They contribute to the development of pedagogical skills in fathers and mothers, communication skills in children. And be sure to try to buy books in which short children's tales are provided with bright, colorful illustrations. They will make the process of familiarizing with literature more exciting.
We come from childhood
However, grandparents, mothers and fathers can also try their hand at writing. If you have the talent of a storyteller, then writing will also work. After all, we adults often do not know what we are capable of. Moreover, a children's fairy tale of their own composition, short and dynamic, can be composed according to current events, and its characters are things and toys surrounding the child. In this case, the invented stories are organically woven into the realities of the baby's life. Thus, in growing boys and girls, a special attitude to the world is brought up - creative, effective, innovative. A non-standard view of the environment also activates
non-standard thinking. Dear adults, remember: a children's fairy tale of their own composition, short, dynamic and kind, with a deep meaning, will remain in the memory of your kids for life and will become a bridge connecting childhood with maturity.
So the kids slept soundly
But back to the pressing issues. Boys and girls of preschool age, and even students in grades 1-5, are very fond of reading an interesting book before going to bed. However, let's think about what children's bedtime stories should be. The main task of such a reading is to calm, relax, and pacify. Therefore, of course, in no case can you choose terrible stories: with sorcerers, vampires, monsters and other otherworldly creatures. Too funny and dynamic, with a variety of intense storylines, too, do not fit. But fairy tales like “Teremka”, “Cockerel and the Millers”, “Puss in Boots”, about Fox and Cock, Morozko and Cinderella can be taken safely. Girls, as a rule, like stories about princesses, boys - social and about animals, knights and Ivan Tsarevich.
Age criteria
Fairy tales for children are conditionally subdivided into age categories. What my son or daughter liked at 5 years old, at 10-12 will cause just a kind smile of memory and no more. This means that each age has its own wonderful stories. For example, the works of the Grimm brothers are suitable for younger students, and the funniest novels by Astrid Lindgren are intended for the older contingent. Most of Andersen’s tales, even such familiar “The Little Mermaid” and “The Snow Queen,” have a hidden philosophical implication, which the child can most often understand with the help of his elders. The rule also applies to more complex things, such as, for example, Exupery’s tales and parables about the Little Prince or Anthony Pogorelsky about Black Chicken, Garin-Mikhailovsky about the boy Tema and his dog Zhuchka. But if suddenly your kid took up the work is clearly more difficult than his current level of development, you should not take away the book. What remains incomprehensible will make an inquisitive child turn to the text again and again - this is how thinkers are formed!