Education is the starting point of every individual, and it is defined as the process of transferring values from parent to child and as the development and shaping of the child. Although people may associate education only with parents, it also takes place in kindergartens, schools, and colleges. Due to the complexity and importance of education itself, parents and teachers are often confused about what or how to do and what complicates things the most is that every child is different. Therefore, it is necessary to apply various educational components and approaches that are „chosen“, depending on a child and his needs. Given that society today is, unfortunately, ruled by the media and social networks, children spend increased amount of time on it and there they see both the good and instructive as well as the less good, even monstrous. Because of all of the above, it is necessary to „update“ education and the approach to education in order to keep up with the development of society. Since I am the mother of a five-year-old son, I see how he often looks at the behavior of the characters from the picture books we read or the cartoons we watch, so if he sees that some behavior has led to negative consequences, he immediately concludes that it is bad and that he should not behave that way. The influence of the characters and the encouragement of the development of critical thinking was my incentive for this thesis, the aim of which is to show how an indirect approach is often more effective than a direct approach. In order to prove this, I conducted a research with my son and the picture book of the Grimm brothers „Little Red Riding Hood“ and the philosophical picture book of Ćurko and Škerbić, „Philosophy – what is that?“. Also, so that we do not stop at the preschool age, I also presented examples that concern most elementary school students and the dangers of TikTok, and high school example of a moral dilemma, the emergency tract. Guided by examples and an indirect approach, the final thought belongs to Philip Kitcher who gives us a tool for all educational doubts and that tool is education.