Not sure this comes under the banner of culture, but we bought some new Ladybird books for ou GS, traditional stories, so we thought. The 3 little pigs was one of them, and on reading the story to GS, I wondered what had happened to it. I am all for modernising, bringing up to date, but this was just silly. There were 3 little pigs, who left home for no reason stated, then they met a men with straw, then one with sticks and then one with bricks, and built each their house. Then the wolf came and ate the first 2, as he could blow their house down, but not the 3rd. The wolf then tried to get the little pig to come out of his house, organising some fun activities such as picking apples, stating a time to meet the next day. Little pig agreed to meet at time stated then went to pick apples 2 hours earlier, so as not to meet the wolf. What is all this about? It's ok to tell fibs, to escape an unpleasant meeting? No value jugement was expressed as to the suitability of house of straw/sticks. The little pigs were not warned of the shortcomings of such dwellings! And of the peril of taking the easy option, being lazy. And then they got eaten! Big price to pay for not knowing what you are doing! All traditional stories had a sort of "morale" attached to them, why get red of this all together? The setting could be modernised, but the basic massage of the story should still find its way in there!
Should women have equal pay and opportunities?
