Something tells me that the reason it’s just a talk is because she didn’t hide the fact that Amanda was in on it. Potentially being glad that they are actually acting like sisters.
There is also a maturity thing. You gave a kid a really cool new toy that they could playfully scare their friends with, they are going to try to figure out ways around the rules to use it, especially if they think they won’t get caught. Fortunately, she is in a situation where mobs of angry scared people resulting from her using it (or other really bad, horrific, not child rated endings) don’t cross her mind because she has been kept relatively safe and hasn’t had that trauma force her to be more mature. For goodness sake we have young adults posting pictures of themselves being involved in destruction of property (the riots in Vancouver BC after a sport’s game a bit more than 10 years ago comes to mind). How much more would a child want to share something with her friends? Something that she is also understandably proud of. Even adults might think “It’s just my friends that I grew up with, it’s no big deal”, even though one small misstep could spend it everywhere, especially with the internet.
How do you explain it to get them to take it seriously without traumatizing the kid? In this case, I wonder if playing a reenactment type game would help. When my sister was in 6th grade (I didn’t get to do it due to unrelated reasons), they did a reenactment game of the underground railroad. Some teachers and classrooms were considered safe houses while other teachers would be the “patrols”. Each 6th grader would get their turn to be the escapee and would have to do the gauntlet through the school from safe area to safe area without being caught until they finally made it (historically being Canada). This was to teach them what escaping slaves in that time had to go through without putting them in any danger. Of course there was a lot of teacher interaction shenanigans, with the safe teachers distracting the patrol ones or rescuing caught students through other silly means. I could see it as a way to teach history as well as a way to teach why some things must be kept secret in order to protect others.
I also don’t know how it would come across now, with school safety measures and people’s perception of things. I should note that I grew up in Maine, which is not a very diverse ethnically state, and can be very proud of its abolitionist history (sometimes too much so). Since there was a house on my street that the town’s history states was part of the underground railroad, they were very big on teaching that history.
Selkie. See this as an absolute win.
Ah. Death by lecture. The go-to punishment of choice used by my parents. ^^;
Mine, too.
How many hours is it from the park to their home?
Something tells me that the reason it’s just a talk is because she didn’t hide the fact that Amanda was in on it. Potentially being glad that they are actually acting like sisters.
There is also a maturity thing. You gave a kid a really cool new toy that they could playfully scare their friends with, they are going to try to figure out ways around the rules to use it, especially if they think they won’t get caught. Fortunately, she is in a situation where mobs of angry scared people resulting from her using it (or other really bad, horrific, not child rated endings) don’t cross her mind because she has been kept relatively safe and hasn’t had that trauma force her to be more mature. For goodness sake we have young adults posting pictures of themselves being involved in destruction of property (the riots in Vancouver BC after a sport’s game a bit more than 10 years ago comes to mind). How much more would a child want to share something with her friends? Something that she is also understandably proud of. Even adults might think “It’s just my friends that I grew up with, it’s no big deal”, even though one small misstep could spend it everywhere, especially with the internet.
Once again, great parenting skills.
How do you explain it to get them to take it seriously without traumatizing the kid? In this case, I wonder if playing a reenactment type game would help. When my sister was in 6th grade (I didn’t get to do it due to unrelated reasons), they did a reenactment game of the underground railroad. Some teachers and classrooms were considered safe houses while other teachers would be the “patrols”. Each 6th grader would get their turn to be the escapee and would have to do the gauntlet through the school from safe area to safe area without being caught until they finally made it (historically being Canada). This was to teach them what escaping slaves in that time had to go through without putting them in any danger. Of course there was a lot of teacher interaction shenanigans, with the safe teachers distracting the patrol ones or rescuing caught students through other silly means. I could see it as a way to teach history as well as a way to teach why some things must be kept secret in order to protect others.
I also don’t know how it would come across now, with school safety measures and people’s perception of things. I should note that I grew up in Maine, which is not a very diverse ethnically state, and can be very proud of its abolitionist history (sometimes too much so). Since there was a house on my street that the town’s history states was part of the underground railroad, they were very big on teaching that history.
I don’t think Todd realizes how fast kids stop listening to a lecture. If it went longer then a few minuets I started playing magic cards in my head.