Dea: "I'm not rough on disney at all. I mean, i'm oftha, but it's a way" When do children first encounter fairy tales? At the most crucial of moments, when they start to form their earliest notions of legality and morality,. As laura nilson points out, when you ask a two year old to share a toy, he'll say, no, it's mine. They suddenly want a framework to help them understand that request. So this is what i want to do in these episodes about the little mermaid - fix the frame set askew by disney a generation ago.