As the three bears get to their bedroom upstairs, Papa Bear and Mama Bear realize that someone has been in their bed, and Baby Bear cries out that someone is still sleeping in their bed. When the bears get home they proclaim that someone has been eating their porridge and sitting in their chairs, with Baby Bear’s porridge has been completely eaten and his chair broken into pieces. Today we know them as Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear. In this bed, Goldilocks fell asleep, and while she slept the owners of the home returned. So once again she is unhappy with the first two beds, one being too soft and the other too hard, but decides that the third bed is just right for her. At this point, Goldilocks is even more tired and she finds her way to the bedroom. As she sits in the chair though, it breaks from under her. Goldilocks finds the first two chairs to be too big, but once again the third chair is just right for her. All of this porridge leaves Goldilocks feeling tired and as she enters the living room she sees three chairs. Little Goldilocks tastes the first two bowls and they are too hot and too cold respectively, but the third bowl is just the right temperature for her and she eats the whole bowl. The first thing she comes across in the house is three bowls of porridge sitting on the table. Goldilocks comes across a house and decides to knock on the door, but when nobody answers she decides to walk right in.

The story we know today begins with a little girl, named Goldilocks, walking through the forest. While the moral of the story has remained intact through its history, the character of Goldilocks was not always the little girl we now know her as. “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is a story told to teach children respect. As more time passes, it becomes easier for us to forget the dark past behind things we may not expect. Nothing distorts history quite like time.

Goldilocks three bears old fashioned