Sad Books are Bad Books?
8 October 2007 – 5:34 pm
This is unbelievable, when I ran across this website on MetaFilter I thought it was a joke.
However, The Happy Ending Foundation (THEF) does exist (and apparently doesn’t have the slightest thing to do with what I first thought it meant. 
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They’re goal… rewrite sad children stories so they have happy endings:
THEF was originally founded in 2000 by Adrienne Small after she read the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to her daughter…
Mrs Small has now left her career as a tax inspector to focus on THEF full-time. She plans to rewrite all 13 Lemony Snicket books to give them happy endings.
Sad Books are Bad Books.
WTF?! This is just crazy… how far does this go?
As a society we keep padding and obscuring our children from the truth in the belief that we are keeping them safe.
In the end we’re creating a society of young adults who will have never learned from their mistakes and who will think that without any effort everything will magically have a storybook ending.
Original Link: www.metafilter.com/65351/Sad-Books-Are-Bad-Books
UPDATE:
Too much support may hamper kids’ development – Reuters
…children whose parents showed differing levels of support fared best, showing greater emotional understanding and less conflict with friends. Children whose parents were highly supportive actually fared worse.
