Myths children

Contents The Myth of the Child Alchemy Its History, Revival, and Symbolism Initiation The Occultation of Surrealism Collage as Alchemy The Alchemical Androgyne Ernst and the Women in His Life As Above, So Below The Alchemical Landscapes Conclusion Notes An Alchemical Glossary Selected Bibliography Index... 

Schrag, Peter, and Diane Divoky. The Myth of the Hyperactive Child, and Other Means of Child Control. New York Pantheon Books, 1975. 

Schrag, P., Divoky, D. (1974). The myth of the hyperactive child. New York Dell. 

Rieder MJ, Matsui DM, MacLeod S (2003) Myths and challenges—drug utilization for Canadian children. Paediatr Child Health 8(Suppl A) 7... 

This book is for prospective parents who are weighing the pros and cons of an only child family, and for actual parents with a single child who, by voluntary choice or involuntary circumstance, are not going to add more to the one they already have. For either group, this book is intended to help these adults understand some of the problems and possibilities that go with parenting an only child. Most important, it is to help parents of only children dispel two myths. 

The myth entered popular culture as well. In 1954, William March published a novel called The Bad Seed,ss about a young mother who discovers her 8-year-old daughter is a murderer. The mother also discovers that she herself is the daughter of a serial killer. By this time the 8-year-old has killed three people. The mother decides to poison the child and commit suicide. The mother kills herself but the child survives. The novel was a great commercial and critical success and was nominated for the 1955 National Book Award. This novelistic trumpeting of hereditary criminality also became a successful film, a long-run Broadway play, and in 1985, a successful television play. 

To try to avoid road safety myths. Some road safety beliefs are not based on fact. For example, many people believe that the chaos outside schools at entering and leaving time is dangerous but there is very little road accident data to support this myth. A study in Sandwell in the West Midlands revealed that about 20% of child casualties occurred on the journey to school but almost none occurred within 500 m of a school. 

While it would be nice if the myths could be debunked, that is probably not going to happen. As is noted in the beginning of this chapter, we already know that the myths are wrong and that usually they are more a hindrance than a help. The way forward is rather to expose them, to look at them with fresh eyes and thereby realise, like the child in Hans Christian Andersen s tale about the Emperor s New Clothes, that there is nothing there. Since the myths are an integral part of Safety-1, it may be difficult to do so from the inside, so to speak. Adopting a Safety-11 perspective, not as a replacement of Safety-1 but as a complement to it, may make this a bit easier. 

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