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I think that was Bruno Bettleheim's theory about the psychological value of frightening children's literature. No doubt there's a range of theories about that, here and elsewhere. My instincts as a parent were to prevent, to the extent I could, the introduction of terror into my child's sense of the world. Difficult to do given the reach of the media {and the shocking range of what's for sale in it} into people's homes in our time.

[QUOTE="Constance, post: 215520, member: 6124"] I think that was Bruno Bettleheim's theory about the psychological value of frightening children's literature. No doubt there's a range of theories about that, here and elsewhere. My instincts as a parent were to prevent, to the extent I could, the introduction of terror into my child's sense of the world. Difficult to do given the reach of the media {and the shocking range of what's for sale in it} into people's homes in our time. [/QUOTE]

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