How honest should parents be?

[Athene]

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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. The bliss of childhood 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.

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That sounds like overdoing it. Did you consult how many kids do in fact get kidnapped on average, before you went ahead and told them that?

When children wander off and disappear, anything can happen to them. They don't have to be kidnapped to be molested or abused.

And btw, I don't care if you think that's overdoing it. I'm not in the mood for your haranguing, pestering, or bullshit today. Find someone else to fuck with. I'm not the one.