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Scaring my kids is really fun – but it’s also how I teach them to navigate a dangerous world | Christian White

By confronting imagined terrors, we rehearse for the real ones, learning that courage, wisdom and empathy are the true charms that keep the darkness at bayHere is one of my earliest memories: I was around four years old, standing in a playground somewhere in Preston, staring in wonder at three big rocks, each one splattered with red spray paint. I asked my nan about it. She could have told me the truth, that the paint was graffiti.Instead, she told me the rocks were a species of monster called bloodsuckers, and that at night they came alive to eat children who were foolish enough to stray outside after dark. I believed her with all my heart. Why wouldn’t I? She was my nan! Continue reading...


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