RE: How honest should parents be?
January 3, 2016 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2016 at 10:10 am by Athene.)
I've always felt that it is my duty as a parent to prepare my children for a world without me in it. I can't and won't always be around. It's best to level with them, in my view.
Timing/age-appropriateness should be taken into account, though. Innocence is wonderful, until it threatens to cause problems for them.
When my boys were younger, they didn't always heed my warnings about wandering off/stranger danger until I told them precisely what happens to children that go missing (without being completely graphic). They faces fell, but they finally got it after that.
I hated for them to know that, but they needed to.
Timing/age-appropriateness should be taken into account, though. Innocence is wonderful, until it threatens to cause problems for them.
When my boys were younger, they didn't always heed my warnings about wandering off/stranger danger until I told them precisely what happens to children that go missing (without being completely graphic). They faces fell, but they finally got it after that.
I hated for them to know that, but they needed to.
