If anything brings out the Karen in me, it’s Halloween displays in stores.
Australia has fully embraced Halloween and there’s no way to put that genie back in the bottle.
Sure, it’s good for kids to experience fear; It’s fun!
Grimm’s fairy tales were full of dismemberment and eating of internal organs with all kinds of moral warnings for children, like, ‘Don’t trust the howling wolf that ate your grandmother.’
These are important lessons of life.
“A little scary for a three-year-old?”
But as a self-confessed, highly imaginative child who was traumatized after seeing return to australia (1985) about a creepy woman who collects other women’s heads to wear by swapping them with her own heads, like a hat collection, when children find scary images in their (non-interchangeable) heads. There’s no point putting the genie back in the bottle.
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Looking around Spotlight the other day, which was filled with vampires with glowing red eyes, corpses, the Grim Reaper, skeletons hanging from the ceiling with spider webs, and scary clowns, I politely asked the lady at the checkout if there were any other moms. -Father has complained about the terrible decoration.
“I’m a Halloween Prude”
My three year old almost wet herself and asked me if ‘Skull-a-Ton’ were real, which started a confusing and even more upsetting conversation when I tried to tell her. that they were actually Inside Him.
He had some follow-up questions, and I had to tell him that he did No There is a scary clown inside him too.
“It’s a bit scary for a three-year-old, don’t you think?” I told the checkout lady.
She narrowed her eyes as she recognized me for what I truly am, a shapeshifter.
Posing as a respectable 30-year-old mom, when I was, in fact, a Karen. A member of the Funny Police.
A Halloween prude.
And you know what? I’m going to own it this year.
Stop scaring my kids.
How about you create a dark corridor somewhere with scary music and a sign that says ‘Enter if you dare’ and trick all your vampires, werewolves and ghosts in there; This would be far more fun for teenagers anyway, and parents with younger children can skip it.
There’s no reason for us all to have mini heart attacks because of the motion-sensor pop-up bloody zombie when I’m going to Bunnings with my kids to buy fertilizer for the plants.
It’s scary enough parenting your kids without waking them up every half hour as their little minds wander in their dreams with scary creatures.
Do you want to know what’s really scary?
Weak pelvic floor. Due to so much sleep deprivation, you end up putting a pair of dirty socks in the fridge instead of the laundry basket. Calling your husband by your son’s name. Being completely angry one minute and loving your kids so much that the next minute you’re crying for no reason.
It’s okay to scare your kids from time to time, but parents should be able to decide when, where, and what it will be. Kind Scaring is age-appropriate for them.
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Jumping out of the closet while they’re moving = ok; Dismembered corpses hanging from the ceiling dripping fake blood resulting in my child having nightmares and anxious questions = not okay.
This is really scary.
If you really want to scare your kids this Halloween, sit down and tell them about inflation.
