Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
Kids are so shrewd.