Fairy tales are past down from generation to generation in order to teach children that the world can be a dangerous place, certain behavior is tolerated and
some isn’t, and that some people protect you, and some will hurt
you. As time goes on bits and parts of the fairy tale change but they seem to have the same meaning and moral to them even if the story goes from a gruesome ending to happy one back to a gruesome ending. Although these fairy tales are now beign sugar coated by society and blocking away most of the situations that are in fact more realistic. For example the Disney movies based on the fairy tales give the main character a perfect ending which does not always occur, it seems to prevent the child from acquiring real knowledge of the world. Parents may say they rather have the sugar coated version because they don't want to ruin the child's innocent mind but now children see worst things on shows and movies even without the parents knowledge of it. The best thing to do is have the parent tell them themselves about life instead of other people doing it themselves, so maybe the best thing is to stop sugar coating certain things and be straight up with them and prevent the confusion and shock of hearing different information. People have many different opinions but at times you have to take the time to be more open minded.
