“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.”

~ Albert Einstein

Read fairy tales by Grimm, not by Disney. Start at 5 1/2. Before that age read and tell the magic of everyday reality, the wonders of science. Those are the deep and firm roots for the skyward-reaching and horizon-spreading tree of the breathtaking symbolic world of fairy tales and the transporting enchantment of metaphor and allegory.