True but also not entirely. Speed and skill can trump power depending on how you use it.
But my contribution is also that the problem with Disneys is that they don't often groom children by force.
A lot of this stuff starts by social engineering and other tools of manipulation, to make the kid rely on them or care about them or want to please them in one way or another.
The real takeaway other than teaching your kids to defend themselves physically is that they need to understand from an early age how to resist their manipulation.
I'm not a psychologist so I can't speak to the specifics of how to achieve that though.
Be accessible to your children so that they are comfortable relying on you. Interaction with your children develops natural self esteem and compentency in them. It's shocking, but wide swaths of parents fail that basic level of involvement and make their children easier prey.
Pedophiles are called predators, and it's good to remember it's literal. They pray on the weak. They can sense weakness because OFTEN they themselves were abused and "it takes one to know one".
When I was a kid, my parents reviewed safety videos with us from the bookstore at church.
It taught us how to identify strange behavior, stay in a group, memorize your address and telephone numbers, don't accept gifts from strangers, things like that.
True but also not entirely. Speed and skill can trump power depending on how you use it.
But my contribution is also that the problem with Disneys is that they don't often groom children by force.
A lot of this stuff starts by social engineering and other tools of manipulation, to make the kid rely on them or care about them or want to please them in one way or another.
The real takeaway other than teaching your kids to defend themselves physically is that they need to understand from an early age how to resist their manipulation.
I'm not a psychologist so I can't speak to the specifics of how to achieve that though.
Parenting.
Be accessible to your children so that they are comfortable relying on you. Interaction with your children develops natural self esteem and compentency in them. It's shocking, but wide swaths of parents fail that basic level of involvement and make their children easier prey.
Pedophiles are called predators, and it's good to remember it's literal. They pray on the weak. They can sense weakness because OFTEN they themselves were abused and "it takes one to know one".
Unfortunately it's the law of the jungle.
P.s. very good comment btw.
When I was a kid, my parents reviewed safety videos with us from the bookstore at church.
It taught us how to identify strange behavior, stay in a group, memorize your address and telephone numbers, don't accept gifts from strangers, things like that.
Im sure we could use a revised vision for 2022.