What is the moral of Sleeping Beauty?

What that actually means

The curse in this story is not caused by wickedness. It is caused by an oversight. Nobody at that court decided to insult the old fairy; they simply stopped thinking about her, and being forgotten turned out to be the thing she could not forgive. The story is unusually honest about how ordinary that is. It also quietly rewards the one person who plans for trouble instead of enjoying the party: the seventh fairy wins not by being more powerful than the old fairy, but by holding something back and standing behind a curtain.

What happens in the story

A fairy nobody remembered to invite curses a newborn princess to die on a spindle. A younger fairy, hiding behind the curtain with her gift still unspent, cannot undo it and argues it down to a hundred years of sleep instead. In Perrault's original there is no kiss at the end. The hundred years is simply up.

Questions to ask afterwards

The lesson lands better when a child works it out themselves.

1. The old fairy was not invited because everybody forgot her. Is forgetting somebody as bad as leaving them out on purpose?
2. The seventh fairy could not undo the curse. She could only make it smaller. Is that still helping?
3. The king burned every spinning wheel in the kingdom and it did not work. Why do you think the story includes that?
4. The fairy put the whole palace to sleep so the princess would not wake up alone among strangers. Was that the kindest part of the story?
5. In this version nobody kisses anybody and the sleep just ends. Does that change how the ending feels?