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 * What are your views about shielding children from unpleasant truths? When is it important for a child to know such truths? When is it better to keep a child in the dark? And, is it right for an adult to lie to a child to "protect" him or her?**

//My views on about shielding children from unpleasant truths are unknown, I have never had this happen to me so I really don't know the feeling of it or how I feel about it. If I did have it happen to me I wouldn't want my parents hiding unpleasant truths to me, I would rather know about it than have my parents keep a secret from mefor so long. Unless they said they were doing to "protect" me, I don't really believe why parents would say they were trying to protect them from something that they were going to know later in life, and is going to be life changing either way. I think it is important for a child to know truths when they feel the child has matured enough to know, Im not saying to go tell your child a truth when there 5 years old. I think they should be told when you know that their old enough and mature enough to understand. Not that they should wait till there 20 years old or something, maybe 15 or 18 around there. Cause if my parents didn't tell me about something till I was 20 years old, I would be upset with them. Last year one of my friends had found out they had another sister, but she was a little upset but she felt better about knowing about it now then if they would have told her when she was 20 or older.//