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Article: MONSTERS AND FAIRY TALES NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PARENTING.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2005
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To the Editor:
So Cookie Monster contributes to obesity, and fairy tales are linked to violence. Something is wrong with this picture. How can it be that fictional characters have more influence in the lives of children than their actual parents?
Like most of my friends, I grew up on Grimm's fairy tales, many of which I read over and over again. Yet I never had so much as passing urge to push anyone in a hot oven, or to cut out an eye. So how can it be that a generation that reads far less than mine did, so we are told, is more influenced by fairy tales than my fellow cohorts and I were? As children, we played and were mischievous. But violence, as ...