{"id":5760,"date":"2011-07-22T17:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:41:03","slug":"should-you-scare-your-kids-into-good-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5760","title":{"rendered":"Should you scare your kids into good behavior?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you live in a culture in which people believe it is fine to occasionally scare children with things like this so they behave? I know in Germany there are also characters that are meant to scare children into good behavior, like a bad Santa helper that punishes bad kids, Knecht Ruprecht<\/a>, or long nailed Struwwelpeter<\/a>. We don’t have those scary characters in Latin cultures, nor in USA.<\/p>\n

When my Leo misbehaves I say “only good boys get to play with the iPad” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

You can see other frightening illustrations from Norwegian children’s books here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Struwwelpeter<\/a>

Struwwelpeter in a 1917 edition – Via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n

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Do you live in a culture in which people believe it is fine to occasionally scare children with things like this so they behave? I know in Germany there are also characters that are meant to scare children into good behavior, like a bad Santa helper that punishes bad kids, Knecht Ruprecht, or long nailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[638,367],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternity","tag-children","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t