Here's an excerpt from an article on Scare Tactics: Why my Family Doesn't Attend the Mall's Safe Halloween:
"I'd much prefer my small children spend their Halloween night cowering in fear of werewolves and mummies than of car crashes and child molesters, because having the time to dwell in the realm of imagination is what childhood is supposed to be about. Of course, children need to know about real-life dangers, but they deserve a holiday too. What better opportunity than Halloween for children to give shape to their imaginative fantasies, whether heroic, malevolent or sparkly?"
We're often pressured as parents to feel as though a million dangers lurk around every corner. Don't get me wrong, it's good that we're more aware of many potential dangers and that we use car seats, etc. But we seem to be at a point where our fear of danger is impairing our-and more importantly, our children's-ability to fully live. The pendulum swings from full on hysteria to lackadaisical parenting, I really wish we could find a happy medium.
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