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2008-06-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Phil_B 2008-06-20 00:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 But still, there is no reason the world needed to know about that story. I thought my 9yo daughter was going to go into convulsions when I clicked on that story on Fox's news site not knowing she was behind me. Stories like that should be on some kind of "adults only" x-rated section or something. I *really* don't need information of that sort being pushed into my livingroom, it is just plain horrible.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-20 02:43|| 2008-06-20 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I would make it a point in future to not insulate your daughter from the really awful things. Kids know they are being lied to by omission, and that can have serious psychological consequences.

Instead, explaining horror to kids is like telling them about sex. It needs to be done in a serious, but not gratuitous manner, over a long period of time, to give them a chance to emotionally digest the information.

Be very clear about one thing: knowing about evil and horror does not make a person evil or horrible. In fact, it makes them the opposite, because they are aware of, and can both avoid and reject such things.

Almost as important is to tell her that many of her peers have *not* been exposed to such things, and are emotionally unable to deal with it, so she should refrain from talking with them about it. It can easily overwhelm them, and they will take it out on her.

I am convinced that many Goth kids are that way because the adults around them have tried to limit their exposure to anything that isn't "nice". The kids do pick it up, but are terrified that there are things so awful that the adults can't talk about it.

It gives them nightmares that they are not being told the truth, because the truth is "too horrible" for them to know. So they fixate on morbidity and pursue it, because they are truly scared.

They just want to be told the truth. And once they are, the whole Goth thing goes right out the window.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-20 09:20|| 2008-06-20 09:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Anonymoose, my kids are the age where they still internalize things. They see a story like that and they think it could happen to them, that someone is going to come and skin them and eat them. It adds unnecessary stress. That is something that would probably happen only once in their lifetime, isn't likely to be repeated within 1000 miles of them, and so there really is no reason to know about it.

How does that information help them make better choices in life? It doesn't. It isn't news. It is very very very morbid entertainment. The story is designed to appeal to some people's curiosity of the morbid. It isn't "news you can use" for anything at all.

Human beings are capable of anything. I really don't need to have that kind of information pushed in my face. Having it available should I look for it is one thing, having it dropped into my lap when I didn't request it is something else. That story in no way enriched my life or provided me with any information I can use to enrich it. It was trash entertainment. Nothing more.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-20 12:02|| 2008-06-20 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 But let me put this opinion in the perspective in which I am seeing it ... there seems to be quite a spate lately of putting horrible crimes against children in the headlines. Psychologically, it makes it seem that there are more of them than there really are. If you hear about one every day, it gives one the sense that the killing and mutilation and other horrible, unspeakable crimes against kids is more commonplace than it is. This is especially true when you are young and still forming your perception of the world.

It seems like every single day, Fox and other media outlets have to run a story about someone doing something horrible to children. It is the latest news fad. Today's story is "Teacher Burns Crosses On Kids" in bold print ... as one of the top three news items at the top of the page.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-20 15:28|| 2008-06-20 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 For me, I'm trying to search for info on this Cult and its belief system > AT THIS POINT, METHINKS I'LL JUST GO WID A RIGHTEOUS "WHAT THE ******"!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-20 19:00|| 2008-06-20 19:00|| Front Page Top

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