How honest should parents be?

[Thumpalumpacus]

That's neither here nor there.

Your (lack of) experience in raising children is very pertinent. Only an idiot would release his or her child into the world without preparing them for even rare potentialities that carry such horrific consequences. Statistically speaking, being killed by an auto running you over is relatively rare, yet we still teach children to look both ways. We don't have to traumatize them to do that, either. You don't have to fill children with fear to do that, as any parent with natural empathy understands.

Quoth Mark Twain, "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."