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not this Christian... i read my sons fairy tales... the real ones... not the Disney versions... they are important... we read everything from Bluebeard to the original Little Mermaid... Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel... even Greek and Norse Mythology when they were children... and they read a lot of Tin Tin comics and Louis L'Amour...

through the years i have read and reread three books on the importance of reading out loud to children, and reading fairy tales... one is The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease... it is a wonderful book... i cannot think of the other two at the moment...

anyway, yesterday my sons (13 and 18 years) and i were discussing the story of Aeneas and Dido of The Aeneid... they can easily follow the story, follow what is happening... my older son has read it before... he is rereading it with us so we can have better discussion... they can easily take what is happening in the story and relate it to biblical principles... or come up with biblical analogies... my boys never confused fairy tales and fiction with real life...

one son is very literary-minded, the other more science-minded... but both are very comfortable with literature and science :)