Climate of fear
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On an unrelated note, this pleased me in and of itself, and saddened me due to the reactions.
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Chris
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April 11th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I concur with your remarks.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
My heart is actually beating a lil’ faster after reading it. First for one reason then added beats for the second. I admit my first visceral reaction is wincing. This is not because I disagree with what she did ( I love it and will expand on this) but for the same reason I wince when you, grown burley adult ride your bike too fast. It is because I am very overprotective with others but free wheelin’ when it comes to myself. I try not to make decisions based on these first bursts of fear knowing they are not usually based on logic or anything helpful to the party or partaaay at hand.
I think she is most certainly correct with what she did, her reasons and her observation that doing the opposite (keeping the kid sheltered as fuck) would help make him far less successful as a person.
It is a freak act of chance when a kid, teen, adult, senior is abducted, raped, attacked. Once the situation is happening there is little you can do even as an adult so it’s not that a kid has less they can do than a responsible adult. They can maybe even run faster or be more agile to get away from an attacker.
As Gavin Debecker wrote in his book “Gift of Fear” kids are taught not to talk to strangers so when they get in trouble or lost they …don’t talk to strangers who could help them.
Protect your kids with knowledge about the world, knowledge about themselves which they get from experiential evidence. They don’t need knowledge about fear. They will pick it up no worries.
“Strength can be gained only be acts of strength themselves. This is what people don’t understand” Dostoyevski