ABSTRACT
From the disorderly handwriting and drawings to the straightforwardness of expressions, one instantly detects a rawness of emotions in childhood writings, with none of the heavy and complex layers of life experiences adults carry around. However, these writings are anything but simple; embedded in these texts are worldviews, ideas about truth, morality, redemption, reason, knowledge, and so on. They carry culturally constructed “grand narratives” that convey feelings of fear, worry, anxiety, pain and suffering which are preventable if we are or become “good” and do what is “right.” Though this type of moralistic storyline grows more complex throughout our growth, the traces of childhood “folktale” psychologies, as Bruner (2004) prefers to call them, stubbornly linger in the many accounts we give of ourselves throughout our lives. Such lingering vestiges become visible if we concentrate both on what is being said as well as how it is being said.
