The Willful Child
The Wilful Child (German: Das eigensinnige Kind) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 117. As a legend, it is widely distributed in Germany.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 779, divine rewards and punishments. Another tale of this type is The Star Money.
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“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”
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