Kids, fairytales, reality…

You can love with all you are… give all you have… wish all you want… some things just aren’t meant to be. So why do we teach our kids that all stories have a happy ending…

When we’re younger we are taught to HOPE… but we’re not taught when to stop hoping. We’re not taught what’s realistic to hope for, we’re not taught that sometimes love is not enough and we’re not taught that sometimes life is just not fair.

All or most fairytales have a happy ending… Cinderella married her prince, so did sleeping beauty and even Beauty’s beast turned into a prince and they lived happily ever after. Kids grow up with this romanticized version of life and love, believing that everything has a happy ending.

Are we not doing them an injustice by teaching them that a happy ending is not always the case? Sometimes in life you get screwed over and you don’t have a clue why but that’s just how it goes down and all there is to do is pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again.

Some people get that dream job,dream car, dream house and find the love of their lives. Some just get the job, others just get the car, others the house and the really lucky ones find someone who they love more than anything else in this world and more importantly that person loves them back and there is nothing standing in the way of “happily ever after”. Thing is.. you can’t have it all.. or can you? How many people actually have a happily ever after?

So, do we teach our kids that everything ends with happily ever after or do we tell them that sometimes life just isn’t fair? Do we let them live in a fairytale world or do we teach them about reality? What puts them more at a disadvantage… fairytales or reality… ?