I Think I Ate Your Chocolate Squirrel
Its funny when you think about the concerns parents have regarding the violent & immoral television & video games when even the children's stories that they expose them to aren't much better. I doubt many parents have sat down and thought fairy tales through before reading them to their children. Have you ever really thought about what children’s fairy tales are really teaching kids?
Jack & the Beanstalk is a prime example. Jack seemingly gets ripped off in an idiotic trade, which caused a beanstalk to grow. He climbs it thousands of feet in the air till he finds someone’s house where he enters (immoral act #1 breaking & entering); he finds a giant cannibal & he steals his goose that lays golden eggs & his magical harp (#2 theft), he attempts to escape with said goose & harp. On the way back home he ends up killing the giant (#3 murder). Jack lived hapily ever after the end. Can you find a moral anywhere in there?
Rumpelstiltskin is another terrible one. This man lies causing a death sentence on his daughter unless she can produce gold from straw for a king. Every night for 3 nights this short little man would come in and help her if she gave him something (this is already starting to look like an adult horror film) the third night she promised him her first born child. She marries the greedy king (who was going to kill her to begin with) & when she has a child the little man comes back for it. She ends up guessing his name so she can keep her child and Rumpelstiltskin commits suicide by ripping himself in half.
I could go on naming children’s stories with terrible plots from Hansel & Gretel to Alice in Wonderland but I think you get the point. However horrible these stories are though I must give them some credit. They still each share a common legitimate moral: Don’t do drugs!
Jack & the Beanstalk is a prime example. Jack seemingly gets ripped off in an idiotic trade, which caused a beanstalk to grow. He climbs it thousands of feet in the air till he finds someone’s house where he enters (immoral act #1 breaking & entering); he finds a giant cannibal & he steals his goose that lays golden eggs & his magical harp (#2 theft), he attempts to escape with said goose & harp. On the way back home he ends up killing the giant (#3 murder). Jack lived hapily ever after the end. Can you find a moral anywhere in there?
Rumpelstiltskin is another terrible one. This man lies causing a death sentence on his daughter unless she can produce gold from straw for a king. Every night for 3 nights this short little man would come in and help her if she gave him something (this is already starting to look like an adult horror film) the third night she promised him her first born child. She marries the greedy king (who was going to kill her to begin with) & when she has a child the little man comes back for it. She ends up guessing his name so she can keep her child and Rumpelstiltskin commits suicide by ripping himself in half.
I could go on naming children’s stories with terrible plots from Hansel & Gretel to Alice in Wonderland but I think you get the point. However horrible these stories are though I must give them some credit. They still each share a common legitimate moral: Don’t do drugs!
