EC Psychology and Psychiatry

The fairy tale occupies a special place in the life of a preschooler. Fairy-tale images are brightly emotionally colored and live in the minds of children for a long time. A fairy tale teaches children to dream, to emphasize the main, individual in the image, to generalize the essential features, and enhances mental activity. Fairy-tale fiction is always pedagogical. It is used as a means of educating the best human qualities. The fairy tale enriches the inner world of children, they are drawn to it.

From a fairy tale, the child begins his acquaintance with the world of literature, the world of human relationships and the world around him as a whole. A fairy tale for a child is nothing more than a means of comprehending life, a way of knowing, comprehending certain life phenomena, the moral attitudes of society.

In every fairy tale there is a moral that a child needs, because he must determine his place in life, learn the moral and ethical norms of behavior in society.

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