Is it moral for adults to teach children about mythological beings they don't believe in thmselves?

[wimp]

such as santa, the tooth fairy or the easter bunny?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

For fun, sure. It's part of being a kid.

I understand why some Christian parents choose not to do these things, but I disagree with them.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I want any future daughter of mine to know who Antigone is and why she's an important figure at least by the age of twelve, so yes.

[dead0man]

while I'm not sure about the morality of it and I didn't do it to my kids, but I'm glad other parents are teaching their kids that adults (and especially your parents) will lie to them.  It's a good lesson to learn early.  Adults are liars.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

I want any future daughter of mine to know who Antigone is and why she's an important figure at least by the age of twelve, so yes.

Creon did nothing wrong. Antigone was trying to honour a traitor who had just attacked the city with a foreign army. Private interest here would have been to invite anarchy.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I want any future daughter of mine to know who Antigone is and why she's an important figure at least by the age of twelve, so yes.

Creon did nothing wrong. Antigone was trying to honour a traitor who had just attacked the city with a foreign army. Private interest here would have been to invite anarchy.

What makes Antigone different from other tragedies is that the conflict in it is between two characters who are each trying to impose on the other their sincerely-held conceptions of an ordered, just, and rational universe...and those two conceptions are, through no fault of anybody's, completely incommensurable. So in the end my reading of the play comes down to which of them I find more personally sympathetic, and (in most stagings; the one with Christopher Eccleston as Creon is a notable exception) that's Antigone by a country mile.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

I want any future daughter of mine to know who Antigone is and why she's an important figure at least by the age of twelve, so yes.

Creon did nothing wrong. Antigone was trying to honour a traitor who had just attacked the city with a foreign army. Private interest here would have been to invite anarchy.

What makes Antigone different from other tragedies is that the conflict in it is between two characters who are each trying to impose on the other their sincerely-held conceptions of an ordered, just, and rational universe...and those two conceptions are, through no fault of anybody's, completely incommensurable. So in the end my reading of the play comes down to which of them I find more personally sympathetic, and (in most stagings; the one with Christopher Eccleston as Creon is a notable exception) that's Antigone by a country mile.

I was trolling somewhat. Creon is shown to be an incompetent dickbag, but as you alluded to the greatness of Greek tragedy is that the conflict often comes from two characters who can both make reasonable argument on their side. Sophocles does the same in Ajax (Homeric honour vs public good) and Philoctetes (right vs advantage). Just hoped to start an argument!

[Samof94]

I voted yes by accident. I meant no.

[°Leprechaun]

Why not just tell your children that mythological beings are just that, i.e. "myths" which some people believe in and some people don't? Just give them the facts.

[°Leprechaun]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pharcellus_Church