DD (aged 3) was recently given a box of fairy tale books. Tonight, she was choosing her bedtime story and decided she wanted Hansel and Gretel.
I had forgotten how horrid the story is - what with children being abandoned by their parents in the forest, a witch imprisoning Hansel so she can fatten him up and eat him, the witch herself getting pushed in the oven at the end...
I tried to gloss over the scary bits as much as possible, but it got me thinking. I guess I must have been told this story in my early childhood. Is 3 too young for the themes in this story? At what age would you introduce stories like this?
DD is very taken by the house made out of sweets so I think will request it again, just not sure how much I need to "censor" it!
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Censoring scary fairy tales?
Servalan · 30/10/2009 21:25
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