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Monsters Won't Get You
I always thought it was a "crime" for parents to terrify their
kids into behaving by telling them that monsters would get them
if they misbehaved. But I never thought anyone would really be
arrested for it! So I was surprised by a recent news item, about
a man arrested in
Oklahoma after leaving his young child alone in the car while he
went into a bar. The child told police that his father told him
if he left the car, monsters would eat him. It isn't funny, of
course, if you think about the actual danger that could have
befallen the child, or if you think about the confusion that
leads to this kind of lapse in parenting. The official charge
was amusing though: "encouraging a minor child to be in need of
supervision." As if young children require any encouragement to
need supervision! |