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Where to people get such sick ideas? not once, not twice but three times that they admit to. And they have 3 sons. What other unspeakable things have they done to their children?
I really like the last lines of the article as below
"All three children remain in the custody of their parents. The Lenharts have a license to drive their car. Perhaps what they really need is a license for parenting."
Where to people get such sick ideas? not once, not twice but three times that they admit to. And they have 3 sons. What other unspeakable things have they done to their children?
Good grief. I had a friend who was locked in a dark closet as punishment when she was a child and it scarred her for life. She can't even get on an elevator now because she's so frightened of small spaces she can't escape at will. Why can't parents think of the long-term consequences acts like this have on impressionable minds?
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Where to people get such sick ideas? not once, not twice but three times that they admit to. And they have 3 sons. What other unspeakable things have they done to their children?
It's simply the logical consequence of popular myth that harsh adversity is good for you because it toughens you up, at least if that assumption is true to the core. If one seriously believes this, then it's not much of a creative leap to transfer that lesson to other matters - such as the incident described above.
OTOH, if you don't agree this is an effective way of curing a three-year-old of his or her fear of the dark, then at the very least, you have to admit that the notion that harsh adversity toughens you up has its limits. Personally I think the old saw "harsh adversity toughens you up" has no more credibility than a typical bumper sticker slogan, but that's another topic.
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