Yes, Raold Dahl was racist and worse, although his stories are brilliant classics. Yes, Americans have an ugly history of racism and worse, though also capable of wondrous achievements. How are we helping children by shielding their young minds from the complexity of their reality? Do we really want them to grow up incapable of reasoning about difficult topics?<\/p>\n
Hiding the truth beneath a layer of sugar can be actively harmful. Should we refrain from teaching children how bad the Nazis were, for fear that we will upset them? If we do that, they might grow up with only a surface understanding, and come to the misinformed conclusion that Hitler wasn’t all that bad. After all, the Nazis had better looking uniforms than anyone else.<\/p>\n
The only way your child can ever learn to safely cross the road is to first understand that cars can kill you. And the only way we can prevent a repeat of horrors like genocide and slavery is to teach our children what to avoid in the society that they will build together when they grow up and inherit this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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