Is that because their immature minds were consuming material written by and for adults? Maybe, but it sounds like a much deeper issue. Something they had allegedly been planning for months. What is most disturbing is that these girls wanted to seek favor with an entity, which they believed stalked and killed people, including children like themselves. For a moment let’s chalk that up to ignorance that everything printed on the Web is factual. What is even more disturbing about this story isn’t that the girls thought Slender Man is real. It is certainly more than old enough to know hurting another person is wrong. I’m not sure there is an exact age for every child, but I would think 12 years old is plenty old enough to tell the difference between fantasy and reality. But I’m pretty sure any future children I may have one day won’t be watching horror movies until they can spell “David Cronenberg.”īut even as a child, I knew the monsters, giant insects, aliens, etc., were not real. I don’t think my mother was a bad parent.Īlthough I still have certain reservations about clowns, I think I managed to turn out well adjusted. I hate to call it bad parenting, but “Killer Clowns from Outer Space?” How was I ever going to look a clown in the face or eat cotton candy again? Even though I love horror movies now, I have no idea why she let me watch them back then. When I was a young child, my mother allowed me to watch horror movies with her. So at what age can a child differentiate between real life and pretend? But everyone already knows that.Īlthough I wouldn’t lump Creepypasta in the same category as porn or gratuitous violence websites, a site filled with horror stories and images probably isn’t what children should be reading if they can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality. It is very easy to monitor what sites anyone visits on a home computer and even block inappropriate ones. Some of them aren’t going to be as obvious as a porn site. News Flash: There are countless websites containing material not suitable for children. Thankfully they didn’t succeed in killing their victim, but now some are blaming Creepypasta as being the inspiration for the attack.
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