But we are talking about stories, and I mean non commercial, people stories. The punishment can be that a baby bird ignores the mother advice , gets hurt and dies in the cold winter. The idea of the story is clear, children must lsiten to the parents or they can get hurt, now maybe in the stories with the bad wolf you might claim that in modern time it is bad to tell the story because the wolf gets the capital punishment s we need to "Disneyify" the story and have the bad wolf sent to therapy with therapy rabbits and he will become a productive member of society again.
Anyway from all this comments on this thread it seems americans only know of Disney and tghe Grim brothers, no one could concieve I am talking about a much larger diversity of stories.
Indeed, the Grimm brothers did not intend their books for children initially. They were supposed to be scholarly works, but no one seems to have told the people buying the books who thought they were tales for children and complained that the books weren't suitable enough for children.
Eventually they caved to pressure and made major revisions in later editions, dropping unsuitable stories, adding new stories and eventually illustrations specifically to appeal to children.
Really?
Stories with child ignores parents and they get hurt were made of adults ?
i was not talking about stories where udnead creatures come at night and kill your very young baby.
Yes. They're not stories about their children after all.
And of course, most of them didn't involve children getting hurt because they ignored their parents. Some were hurt for no reason or because their parent's mistake, others aren't about children at all.