Experts told whether Russian folk tales can help raise a successful child.
It is believed that the good old Russian folk tales bring up in children the faith in miracle, wit and kindness. All this is true, but they don't teach a child to grow successful and hardworking, according to experts of the Central Bank of Russia.
Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Shvetsov said that such tales only harm the formation of a successful person. As an example, he cited the fairy tale “By pike command”, in which older brothers, who work and strive for something, are fools, and good fortune does not come to them, but to their younger brother who is lying on the stove nothing wants to do in order to live better.
Shvetsov stressed that such plots gradually form a child’s own incorrect relationships with the world of finance. Grown-up children and adults believe in freebies, waiting for her, and do not want to do anything for positive changes in life.
On such a belief in a miracle, experts at the Central Bank emphasize, many generations of Russians have grown. And the gullible ideas of miracle and freebies obtained with children's fairy tales played a cruel joke with many people - MMM, “pyramids”, fraudsters in Russia are widely spread and the consequences of their actions are grand.
Modern children see the world differently.
In order to believe in a miracle, experts say, it’s not at all necessary to learn from the examples of lazy Vanyush or stubborn brothers who have become goats after drinking water from a puddle. It is necessary to study financial literacy since childhood, and examples from folk tales are not very suitable for that.
But there are no tales about successful working brothers, there are only tales about how younger brothers, lazy and lucky, seize good luck by the tail. In this situation it all depends on the parents, experts say. After all, the behavior of Ivan the Fool mother can always explain the child in different ways.
It is impossible not to read folk tales, this is our cultural history.
Important to learn read fairy tales correctly, explaining to the children why the priest from the Balda tale was unwise, hoping for some reason, why Balda himself, being an excellent worker, had to work for "slick" and not for real money.
To teach children financial literacy in respect of pensions is possible on the example of the fairy tale “On the Fisherman and the Fish”, and the basis of planning will help lay the “Tale of Lost Time”.
