Green Monsters: Instilling Fear In Children
CHILDREN are great. They come all new and then you get to work on them, passing on your irrational fears and prejudices.
In a piece entitled “Perhaps a fox could bite my bottom”, the Times looks at the “Anxiety timeline”, how humans develop from a fear of “unusual situations at birth (being alive) to “goblins” and paedos, to being Josh, aged 8:
“It’s scary to think of pollution destroying all the rainforests so the animals haven’t got anything to eat and then the plants will die and the human race will die.”
And Josh will die… On a positive note, there will be no more nightmares when we’re all gone, and with the undergrowth dead, the paedo at the bottom of the garden will be exposed…
As Amy, 13, says:
“It scares me thinking that one day I might get so old that I lose my sense of humour and no one wants to be friends with me because I’m no fun.”
Hush, Amy, there, there. So long as the rainforest dies, you will never grow old…
Now sleeeeeppppp…
Rocka by baby, on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will drop, when the logger chops down the bough and the entire forest with it, baby will suffocate and we will all be dead…
Amen.
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Global Warming, Media Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
- yampster on In Pictures: Erotica 2009 At Olympia, London (NSFW)
- Erotica Visitor on In Pictures: Erotica 2009 At Olympia, London (NSFW)
- Anorak on I’m A Celebrity: Mitch Winehouse Leaks News Of Amy’s Winehouse’s ‘Leaky’ Breasts
- percy on I’m A Celebrity: Mitch Winehouse Leaks News Of Amy’s Winehouse’s ‘Leaky’ Breasts
- June on Camilla Duchess Of Cornwall Stoops To Conk Him: Jerrod Gets Bashed
November 14th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
My current pet hate is the ads about smoking. ‘I’m scared my mummy’s going to die’ type ads with mum having a crafty fag in the garden and a tear-stained child looking through the window. Grrrrrr.
If even secondhand smoke kills then we don’t have to worry about rainforests because we’ll all be DEAD next year.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:17 am
I don’t believe any of this………but will someone take that Dalek out of the wardrobe before I go to bed ?
November 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am
‘Though the research is still incomplete’
Ok; when they’ve finished that particular piece of research we can go on to the interesting question of why reporters should feel an overwhelming desire to write an article about a piece of research which has not even been finished yet, much less survived the process of peer review and made it into published form.
My research on that aspect suggests that journalists in search of a pet theory have no grasp of the concept of evidence itself, much less the notion of weighing evidence to formulate a hypothesis.
With journalists it’s the other way around; have a pet theory and then go in search of a few soundbites which may, to the credulous, sound as if there is some form of reasoning going on here.
There isn’t, but what the hell! They are only journalists…
November 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am
There was always a wolf under MY bed. If I find out it was my ma that put him there, well there’ll be trouble!