• Family & Homeschool

    How Fairy Tales Teach Emotional Intelligence

    I recently heard a quote by Einstein that intrigued me: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” I immediately went to the library, pulled a bunch of fairy tales off the shelves, and brought them home with every intention to read them aloud to my kids. Unfortunately, it was in the middle of summer, and our read aloud time was pretty much non-existent. All the fairy tales went back to the library without having been read. Am I really worried about my kids not being intelligent because they haven’t read enough fairy…