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front of the TV and expect them to stay out of trouble while they go off and do other things. Then they start a riot when they discover their beloved electronic babysitter isn't doing what they want. They demand that their children be sheltered from so many things. But this can do far more harm than good. Take, for example, a hot stove. If a child puts his hand on the burner, he's going to get burned once. It'll hurt, yes, but he probably won't do it ever again. He learned from his experience that putting your hand on a hot stove will hurt. Now let's put a protective parent into the scenario. The child reaches for the hot stove and the parent swats their hand away because they dont want the child to get hurt. The child doesn't learn that touching the stove will hurt because the parent won't let him find out. What happens when the child grows up and leaves the family? With his parents no longer there to give him direction, he can touch the hot stove all he wants, and by this point he may not care if he burns his hands (while this makes less sense for a hot stove, it makes more sense for a real-life thing like unprotected sex or drug usage).
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the battery and give the rest of the party hope for success, I knew the parts shop guy was literally ripping the guts out of the blender, and so on and so forth. The only part of the movie that actually scared me was the moment Kirby leaped off the cliff and into the waterfall, solely because the sudden noise startled me after about 5 seconds of silence.
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