- The three bowls of porridge have been sitting on the table the same amount of time. Why is the Papa Bear's porridge still hot when Mama's is cold and Baby's is just right? Did he have a bigger portion, Mama had an "on a diet" sized portion and baby just had a regular amount? Was there a draft?
- I'm assuming Goldilocks weighs about the same amount or less than the Baby bear. So what's up with the chair breaking? Was she jumping on it? Was she a very large little girl?
- Three beds? Were Papa and Mama bear having some marriage issues? Or maybe they just needed a sleep number bed but couldn't afford one. Papa bear would have probably had a sleep number of 90 and Mama might have been more around a 35 or so.
- Obviously they didn't believe in co-sleeping or having a family bed.
- They must make their beds every day because it was very clear to them that someone had been messing up the covers. At our house, you would have never known until you heard Goldi snoring.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Who Wrote this Story Anyway?
This afternoon as I was trying to coerce my three and a half year old into taking a nap so that I could take one too, I told him the story of Goldilocks and the three Bears. It seems he had never heard it before, oops. I'm sure I have told it to the older kids a million times but somehow I hadn't shared this classic little story with him yet. As the story unfolded I got to thinking about it a little bit. Now I know it's make-believe and everything but some things about it just don't make sense at all.
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Hey, there's nothing wrong with exercising your analytical skills! I have never given it much thought, but you're right--that story has some odd twists and turns. The fact that I'm so fascinated shows I spend a lot of time with kids too.
The more important question at the heart of that story is: why was Goldilocks breaking and entering?
I think your theory on the porridge is sound, however.
Very funny!! Could you do the same to Hansel & Gretal and Rapunzel, please? They freak me out! :-)
OH my goodness...I do this very thing. I love to pick apart fairy tales to my kids. We, as in the older boys and I, laugh pretty hard about it. You are definitely a girl after my own heart!!
Hansel & Gretal always freaked me out. I thought cannabolism (however you spell it) was illegal but I guess not.
you bring up good points regarding the 3 bears. I hadn't thought of that, but like Jenni said why was she breaking and entering anyway?
I KNOW! These stories are crazy, breaking and entering, gouging out eyes, cannibalism, what are we teaching our kids? But I overlooked the most obvious questions......bears who make porridge, sit in chairs and sleep in beds?
I have had some of the same thoughts about Goldilocks. Just thought I was being too analytical. Nice to see there is another that thinks the same. I'm not too sure I like some of the stuff in fairy tales anyways. Seems like they are not really written for children.
These are very good questions! Very funny! You must have a very analytical mind!
Too funny! We homeschool and the curriculum we use has us reading Fairy Tales. I didn't really know alot the original stories. I cringe at the thought of Little Red Riding Hood. The hunter comes and cuts open the wolf's stomach and Grandma leaps out?!?! What the heck!? lol Then they fill his belly with stones and sew him shut. Nice.
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My husband, the physics guys said this, "The only way you get differential cooling is to have a different starting temperature, therefore, the solution is that Mama bear added milk to her porridge and baby bear had just a wee bit of milk and Papa bear is lactose intolerant (it makes him fart) so he takes his plain."
Also, Papa bear has a bad back and they are thinking of getting those craftmatic adjustable bed or a sleep number bed so that they can get together. Then there is the whole thing about traumatizing baby bear by having _ _ _ with him in the same room.
haha! you should write a modern version of the girl that stumbled upon the house, such as hoodwinked. heth, what really happened??
I have thought much about this same story... if you want to really be disturbed, read your child Hansel and Gretel?!?!?!!!?!? I liked it as a kid, and then I read it to mine and about choked. Oddly enough, its one of Keenan's favorite. Does the thrill of the candy house out-weigh the trauma of being deserted TWICE by your father and having to push a witch into an oven to burn to death?
I love your thoughts. I used to pick apart stories like that too. I also remember telling that one to some of my youngers that hadn't heard it. I thought I'd worn it out already. Their favorite bedtime stories were made up ones. I can't recall what I said, but I would be too tired to read so I'd lay on the bottom bunk with 2 of them and just make up a story as I went-often using them as characters.
How funny. Never took that much time to ponder the idiosyncracies of this story. Guess I need to. It makes for great conversation I think! ;)
I have wondered some of the same things. But the one that really gets me is The Princess and the Pea. FIRST OF ALL, it was really rude of her to complain so much. Not a very nice princess. Secondly, if she's black and blue from a pea under all those mattresses, how does she manage to sit on a normal chair throughout the day--even one with a cushion? That woman was sick. That story bugs me so much that I never told it to the kids.
Oh and fairy stories weren't written for kids (I'm responding to one of your commenters) but were stories for all ages from the era before TV and the printing press. There's a fascinating book called "The Great Cat Massacre" or something like that with several of the original versions. V interesting.
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