Should Parents be Scared of Their Children?
It’s dangerous when obsessions combine with intelligence and innocence.
A sweet little family of a young pair and their two very beautiful daughters of 11 and 5 years lives in my neighbourhood.
Last week I saw the father crying and felt terribly odd. He would take his younger daughter in his arms and cry, let her go, then hug her again and cry, then let her go, then grab her again in his arms and cry. Then he just left crying. Half an hour later, I learnt that he had been accused by his 11 year old daughter of almost abusing her.
The mother went in shock. She moved to police immediately, obtained a restraining order and the father would go to jail. She sent both her daughters to their grandparents for some days until the storm blew over. Then another storm blew over.
The 11 year old kid, by way of talking, said something suspicious that made her grandparents suddenly sit up. On further talks, the girl buckled and confessed to making this whole thing up.
But why?
Because her school friends were all on Tiktok and Instagram, and she wasn’t because her father didn’t allow her to, and she was being ridiculed by her school friends because of that.
So she thought:
Papa is the one who stops me from…
