RAR #245 How to Read a Fairy Tale

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Books, Homeschool, How To, Read-aloud, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Reading, Education, Parenting

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the last couple of episodes, we’ve discussed the importance of fairy tales, especially in the development of the hearts and minds of our children.

And you might be wondering . . . now that you know about the Gospel connections and symbolism of fairy tales, do you need to dissect every story and present all of the details to your kids?

Experts say no. But it can be incredibly edifying for you as an adult!

Today, we’ll discuss how to bring these “truer than true” stories into your kids’ lives and how deepening our own understanding of their symbolism and meaning enriches our reading lives too.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

Why your children don’t need you to point out the deeper meanings and connections in fairy tales
How fairy tales provide us an opportunity to shape our child’s loves
Why simply reading fairy tales aloud to your kids is enough

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Find the rest of the show notes at: https://readaloudrevival.com/how-fairy-tales/

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0:00.0	Oh my fairy tale summer is underway and we are already having so much fun.
0:09.0	Do you know my favorite part about this brand new program from Read Aloud Revival. It is completely flexible
0:16.7	and customizable. Do you have 10 weeks to read fairy tales? We've got you covered. How about five weeks? Is that a better version for you? Yeah, we made that too. Now what about your kids? Are they all littles? All bigs? Do you have both littles and bigs? Check, check, you can see sample pages of Fairy Tale Summer
0:37.8	and sign up to join us by texting FTS, like Fairy Tale Summer, FTS to the number 337777 and find out why our members are
0:50.0	telling us this is the best guide we've ever made yet. Welcome to episode 245 of the Read A Loud Revival podcast,
1:14.2	the show that helps your kids fall in love with books
1:17.0	and helps you fall in love with homeschooling.
1:19.4	I'm your host Sarah McKenzie.
1:21.4	Right now, we are also the show that helps you fall in love with reading
1:25.4	fairy tales to your children, or at least I hope that's true. In episode 243, we talked all about why fairy tales aren't like other stories, why they matter
1:37.1	more and make a bigger difference in your child's life than most other stories do. Today we're going to talk about how. Now as soon
1:46.7	as we realize that fairy tales are full of gospel truth and symbolism and
1:52.4	deep meaningful resonance, many of us start to wonder,
1:56.4	should we point this out to our kids? Should we tell our kids about it?
2:00.1	Fairy tales often follow one of two main narrative structures. Fairy
2:04.0	often follow one of two main narrative structures.
2:05.1	In many, many fairy tales,
2:07.1	the narrative ends with a wedding feast.
2:09.5	These are wedding feast fairy tales.
2:12.1	They often involve a prince
2:14.4	rescuing a princess getting married and end with a wedding feast
2:19.9	so for example sleeping beauty Sleeping Beauty, the princess falls into a deep sleep,
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