Comment by oh_sigh
5 years ago
Do you not let your children read fiction books, since they are just filled with lies that the author imagined? Your comment about 'never lying' sounds like you take it to almost a pathological level.
5 years ago
Do you not let your children read fiction books, since they are just filled with lies that the author imagined? Your comment about 'never lying' sounds like you take it to almost a pathological level.
Please don't cross into personal attack. Especially on parenting, which is the most intensely personal topic of all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is a huge differenc between fantasy and making uo stories, which is great - and intentional misleading someone.
So the story with the seamonster .. might be seen as a imaginative way of giving the truth about the dangers of the sea. (But I would just go with the general DANGER, so far I have not been to the sea with my toddler, but on rivers. And he respects it, without being scared irrational)
There's no indication that Inuit children become irrationally scared of the ocean because of the sea monster story they're told.
Then maybe they are at least partly aware, that it is mythology and not real.
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