A fairy tale is one of the most amazing creations of folk fantasy. Appearing back in time immemorial, it is still loved by children today: from the smallest to the already grown. As soon as your child learns letters, learns to read, books with fairy tales become his dearest and beloved friends.
Tips for parents
If your baby is not too raschalilsya or raskapriznichalsya, if he does not want to eat such a useful semolina porridge or go to bed, in most situations it is the short children's tales that will help to calm the child out of control. Why short? Because you need to calm the child quickly. In large-volume works, as a rule, the narration is unhurried, the change of events is proceeding slowly. But short children's tales are captured from the very first lines, leading to a world of adventures and unusual characters.
When reading together, be sure to pay attention to the children's victory of good over evil. So you put in your child the first moral and moral criteria, form the conviction that the offense is punished, and it is better and more honorable to be benevolent and honest than the malicious. Just do not transfer to the children themselves the evaluation of heroes and do not paste labels on children. Do not frighten them with threats, that for a disobedience the wolf will come and eat or Baba Yaga will carry away to his hut. From early childhood, the child must penetrate the poetic world of the fairy tale, the atmosphere of the miracle, and not fear. You do not want to plant a daughter or son with a lot of complexes!
Rhythmic basis
It would be good if the works contained rhymed lines. The children remember them, developing their speech and memory. Even better, if short children's tales are written in a poetic form, such as works by Chukovsky, Zakhoder, Mikhalkov. Their children can remember everything entirely. Then the parents get the opportunity to organize a new form of joint play - role retelling. Such exercises are very useful both for adults and for kids. They contribute to the development of pedagogical skills in dads and moms, communication skills among children. And still be sure to try to buy such books, in which short children's tales are supplied with bright, colorful illustrations. They will make the process of familiarizing with literature more exciting.
We come from childhood
However, grandparents, moms and dads, too, can try themselves in the writing business. If you have the talent of a storyteller, then writing will do the same. After all, we, adults, often do not know what they are capable of. Moreover, a children's fairy tale of one's own composition, short and dynamic, can be composed according to current events, and the characters and toys that surround the child become its heroes. In this case, the invented stories organically intertwine in the realities of the baby's life. Thus, growing boys and girls are brought up with a special attitude to the world - creative, effective, innovative. A nonstandard view of the environment activates non-standard thinking. Dear adults, remember: a children's fairy tale of your own composition, short, dynamic and kind, with a deep meaning, will remain in the memory of your kids for life and become a bridge that connects childhood with maturity.
To the children were fast asleep
But let's return to the pressing issues. Boys and girls of preschool age and even pupils of grades 1-5 like to be read an interesting book before going to bed. However, let's think about what should be children's tales for the night. The main task of such reading is to calm, relax, and pacify. Therefore, of course, in no case can you choose stories terrible: with sorcerers, vampires, monsters and other otherworldly beings. Overly funny and dynamic, with a variety of strained storylines also do not fit. But fairy tales like "Teremka", "Cockerel and Mills", "The Cat in Boots", about the Fox and Petushka, Morozko and Cinderella can be taken boldly. Girls, as a rule, like stories about princesses, boys - social and domestic animals, knights and Ivan the Prince.
Age criteria
Tales for children are conventionally divided into age categories. What the son or daughter liked at 5 years old, at 10-12 will cause just a good smile of memories and nothing more. This means that each age has its own remarkable stories. For example, the works of the Grimm brothers are suitable for younger schoolchildren, and Astrid Lindgren's funny stories are meant for older contingents. Most of Andersen's fairy tales, even such familiar "Little Mermaid" and "Snow Queen", have a hidden philosophical overtones, which the child can understand most often with the help of elders. The rule also applies to more complex things, such as the fairy tale-parable of Exupery about the Little Prince or Antonia Pogorelsky about the Black Hen, Garin-Mikhailovsky about the boy to Theme and his dog Zuchka. But if suddenly your baby took on the work is clearly more complicated than its current level of development, it is not worth taking the book. What remained incomprehensible will cause the inquisitive child to turn again and again to the text - so thinkers are formed!