Is the classic so good ?

As one famous film said, "The world is changing. Music is changing. Even drugs are changing." And children's literature is not standing still either. Many books are becoming irrelevant, and I am not even talking about outdated realities (pioneer childhood, for example), but about an outdated worldview. Education is changing, the approach to children is changing, and, frankly speaking, thank God!

As a child, I loved the poems of Agniya Barto, but now I can’t read them without an internal protest: her children are all crybabies, slobs, lazybones and liars. You can really feel how those who don’t march in formation with everyone else, but show their individuality, annoy the children’s poetess. She was a tough person, and her attitude to the world, her categorical nature, her desire to denounce and the reading of the notations is visible in the verses as if on the palm of your hand.

And recently I decided to listen to Zoshchenko's children's stories with my child, expecting for some reason soft humor and a light atmosphere. Why did I decide that? From my childhood I only remembered the story "Kaloshes", in which Lelya and Minka, brother and sister, sold their galoshes to a junkman and bought themselves ice cream with the money. For some reason I remembered that it was very funny. But in the end, such a severe punishment awaited the children for such a minor offense that I couldn’t even explain it to my surprised child, for what. Why did the father forbid the children to eat ice cream for two whole years and sell all (absolutely all!) the children's toys? And the father really remained adamant for the entire two years, it was awful! But before, perhaps, this was the norm? In other stories it is no better (the grandmother is especially good there!), so I somehow explained to my son that children are not raised like that now, and we never returned to Zoshchenko again.

Of course, most adults (at least in Russia) continue to treat their children the way their parents treated them in childhood, but a shift is still noticeable: many mothers understand the need for changes in upbringing. And in the books of modern authors we will not find moralizing, accusations and humiliation. Long live the new!