The Little Red Hen: Implications for Parenting, Education and Human Existence

Wendy Buchholz
8 min readMar 4, 2019
Photo by Joël de Vriend on Unsplash

The old Russian folktale, The Little Red Hen, is a tale written for children to help teach the values of hard work and self-reliance. In the story, the Little Red Hen finds a seed of wheat, which she decides to plant in order to make bread. The Little Red Hen attempts to enlist the help of other farm animals in the planting, harvesting, threshing, and…

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Wendy Buchholz

Writer, Licensed Psychotherapist, Clinical & Medical Hypnotherapist, Adjunct Psychology Professor, Masters work in Communication Theory, Change Advocate