Fairytales Now Need a Safety Warning

A new child protection curriculum being implemented by the Education Department in Australia urges teachers to give children safety messages after reading them fairytales. The goal is to make sure that children understand not to engage in unsafe behaviors such as talking to strangers like Little Red Riding Hood and not to enter strange houses like Hansel and Gretel. While I can see the value in teaching kids not to talk to strangers, I want my kids to know that is is perfectly acceptable to push any elderly cannibal into an oven should they be kidnapped and kept in cages.

Original endings

[Timothy Brownawell]

This is why they should be told with the original endings, not the happy-pure Disneyfied ones.

Originally...

[oneal13rru]

weren't fairy tales designed to get these points across without a lecture originally?

Dark and bloody originals

[Sun Chi]

If you want the real thing, try the original Grimm's Fairy Tales [wikipedia.org] or the Blue and Red Fairy books [wikipedia.org]. And wow are they dark. I think by the body count alone it is clear that the things people do in those stories are a bad idea.