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It is the adults who should be afraid this Halloween. Not of ghouls and goblins, but of psychologically scarring their children.
“Intriguingly, Halloween is a holiday when adults assist children in behaviors taboo and out of bounds,” Clark writes in the anthropological journal Ethos. “It is striking that on Halloween, death-related themes are intended as entertainment for the very children whom adults routinely protect.”
For most kids, at an age when they’re often not included in family funerals or witness to grave illnesses, Oct. 31 is often their first introduction to the subjects.
So remember that when you dress your 1 year old in his pea pod suit and your 6 year old in her sparkly Princess costume.
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