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Teaching children mythology

Ditty shares two incidents from her childhood that show the dangers of television on impressionable young children.  Not violent movies, as you might imagine, but the dangers of watching Ramayan.

Gogol was standing in front of his mom’s open wardrobe. Around his waist was wrapped a thin cotton towel, the end of which was on fire. Gogol stood there, with his “tail” burning and quickly turned around and tried to set his mom’s saris on fire.

But some kids do not believe mythologies so easily, as Desigirl finds out.

“With the thumb gone, Ekalavya cannot use a bow and arrow anymore and Arjuna would be the champion shooter, that’s why.”

“Eh? So what if he can’t use a bow and arrow or his right hand? He can use his left hand! Or he can use a gun! Pow pow pow! Easy, see?”

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Brian
March 7th, 2008, 12:25 pm | #

Myth and story provide incredibly powerful metaphors for the journey through adolescence to adulthood. Exposing young people to myth and the meaning behind it can open up doors that may amaze us. There is a another great blog that focuses on Homer’s Odyssey and other myths and the deep connection they have to the journey through adolescence. It is called Rethinking Life:

http://eteaching101.blogspot.com

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