Listening to bedtime stories during childhood is also fun. But we often come across some fairy tales in which a princess also need the support of a prince but is it always true. Why can’t we tell stories where male need female? Why we also tell that women are the weaker section?
Children are innocent whatever we told them during their innocence period get stored in their memory and they start behaving like that. We should never create a passive character of women in front of children. If we tell these stories to a girl child she starts making herself weak and tries to imagine herself in that story and we tell these type of stories to the male child he thinks that he is the only saviour of female and he tries to dominates her in future.
These stories are not of the kind type which is one of the first ethics issues that children should learn but they are full of cruelty. Fairy tales are essential as they develop ideas in children but these type of idea not only create passive thought but also create a sense of dominance against another gender.
We should always try to read stories which are having some moral and ethical value that can create a good human. These stories must be gender-neutral. Stories must deal with reality, not with myths that create a sense of only joy in life. Children should be prepared for the worst and best for tomorrow. It should not promote patriarchal structure in the mindset and nor create hatred for another gender. Do we often show the female part as a good wife, good daughter, good mother why they don’t take into consideration good husband, good son, good father? We should create an environment with can nurture children with good values.