Show y B MY MOTHER ENCOURAGES DEVEL OF THE CHILDS CHILD'S IMAGINATION Is the telling of fairy tales lales harm harm- fu Lul Will t they ey make the thc child less careful of time the truth Do they timey male make time the child find time the transition from the life of time the Imagination to realIty reality real real- Ity harder In a w us wd d d Is It golT g to be more dIfficult for time the child to be satisfied with being being a kitchen kitch- kitch en dru drudge it if he has been fed On n the story of Cinderella Personally I think the answer to each of those questions Is no Fairy tales at a certain period d are areto areto to the child as s a field of clover to toa toa a honey bee bce lie needs nees just what fairy tales hac to give lie Is always a- a al- al ways quite aware that real life and the lIfo life depicted In iii Grimms Grimm's or any other fairy book booe Isn't as his own life And this Is most Important When ho he has liaS' read and heard fairy fairytales fairytales tales he really doesn't see surrounded by unyielding reality by merely meley thinking about It he can pull himself up by Isis his own boot bootstraps bootstraps straps right rl-ht out of any sordid en- en Into a more satisfactory world There Is a small chance that the sensitive child handicapped In someway some someway way so that he feels inferior to his playmates may take refuge In Imagined joys and successes sue sue- and make no effort to brIng time the actuality about That Is jusa just jus justa a small chance though and If the child Is day dreaming too much and stays by himself and Is unable to meet situations which are distasteful distasteful dis- dis tasteful to to him because of his inferiority inferiority in- in then Ime he must be pulled UP sharply and shown that while the Imagination Is a delightful refuge from reality Imo he is cowardly to tomake tomake make It a substitute for the real thing Here Is a nice lofter on this subject subject sub sub- which I am going to share with YOU I im have vc read to and brought Up my four girls and one boy on stories about nature We have had such fine times gathering cocoons and watching their development and stud studying time the habits of b bids and bees I also read and talked to them about biographies and tory and time the glorious adventures 1 of ancient and modern heroes But tIme the unforgettable times we had when shen With all five sitting In front of the timo Ironing board beard while I ironed their endless little clothes I told them fairy tales I told them time tho myths upon which operas are arc based so that today they have a great love for or opera Time The first of these girls Is out of high school and graduated with honors Often orten their active Imaginations have helped them with essays or co corn corn- n- n positions and they have r m many ny a nice in competitions Fairy airy tales ales did not harm them at atalL atalL alL They knew that time the stories were not true Imagine time the l loss ss of the lt If a child never knows Cinderella or Time The TInder Box or TIme The Little Mermaid It gives them thema a thrilling childhood and soon I enough enough- the the children grow out of the unreal into the r Jt L i j |