Comment by qarl
1 year ago
> There are definitely better ways to communicate danger to a child than the boogeyman.
Why do you say that?
"If you go into the water you will die." Death is pretty abstract to a toddler. Even extreme pain - they've never been hurt in any serious way.
"If you go into the water you will be grabbed by a monster and taken away." It's all concepts a toddler is very familiar with.
I find this stories = lessons concept interesting in that we tell this story in so many ways, but that if it's an Aesop or Brothers Grimm it's just stories, if it's Christianity, Islam etc it's to be treated seriously and with reverence and respect.