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Fairy tales are important part of every child’s life. Every child likes to listen and read fairy tales. Fairy tales are interesting and help children to learn many things. Fairy tales help children to get experience about the difficulties of life. These books teach them to face the challenges and terrors that may come in their life bravely. It is difficult that your children may start understanding everything about life in a tender age but fairy tales help children to read about different experiences of life which help them to become strong.

The mind of children develops slowly as their body grows but they may start understanding the different ways of life. If you want to enrich the life of your child you should stimulate his/her sense of imagination, help him/her to develop intelligence and to show emotions. You child should be accustomed to dreams, aspirations, failures and difficulties of life.

Some parents do not allow their children to read fairy tales as they believe that fairy tales are too much scary and consist of evil things. They do not want that their children should know about these things. But such parents are not doing any good to their children as they are not allowing their children to face the reality. Definitely, there is a time for learning everything. But still fairy tales help children to understand some important ways of living their life successfully that are really helpful to them in their future when they grow up.

When children are not allowed to face the realities through the source of fairy tales, their mind may become repressive and he/she may develop these traits in personality. Therefore, it is very important that the child should be exposed to both sides of the coin. They should know about joy and sorrow together, ugly and beautiful side, so that he/she may distinguish between good and bad things. If a child is exposed to good things only he/she will not understand the dark or ugly side of the life but if any such bad situation comes in his/her life, it would be difficult for your child to cope with it.

You can provide children with the resources required to face the challenges head-on with assurance. The most important factor in fairy tales is the ethical option provided to the main character. The child understands that options have repercussions, and the child can select what type of person he/she wants to become. The fairy tale provides guidance to the children so that instead of getting out of into a globe of unreality, he/she is given resources to help him/her create personality and bravery to deal with what they get in life. Often the main character is missing, alone, terrified. These are emotions a child recognizes with. Yet, the main character is advised and given help along the way because of his perseverance and bravery. In this way, fairy tales work their own type of miracle, for teaching them; the child seems recognized and overflowing.

Fairy tales, as opposed to any way of literary works, help children to find their identification and they also recommend what things are required to create his personality further. Fairy tales indicate that a good life is within you and one should not shy away from the dangerous battles without which one can never accomplish real identification.

Collection of fairy tales for children includes stories many of which can be found no where else.