Aussie wrote on Oct 21^st, 2016 at 8:54pm:



spray doofus ...typo

John Smith wrote on Oct 21^st, 2016 at 8:55pm:


"No sh1t, Sherlock."

Oh what a terrible cause.


The Foundation's key role in the community is the education of all children about their personal safety. By directly assisting educators and parents through the funding and development of child safety educational resources as well as assisting young victims of crime, the Foundation continues to empower all Australians to make their local communities safer places for all children.

John Smith wrote on Oct 21^st, 2016 at 9:08pm:


It's the schools role to check anything from outside the ciriculum.  Buck stops with them.

Gordon wrote on Oct 21^st, 2016 at 9:09pm:



you can bet I'll remind them of that come Monday morning

John Smith wrote on Oct 21^st, 2016 at 7:41pm:


Somehow, I don't think that this really happened. But it does raise a point about appropriateness if it is true. When I was 10 years old, I was exposed to this silly M-rated movie called "Critters 2". In today's horror terms, I thought the movie was quite tame. But, as a 10-year-old, I was horrified by the explicit violence of people getting killed by alien creatures at apparent random.

To the extent that I was frightened of the likelihood that something horrific would happen to myself and family. It took a good 2 years to overcome the post-traumatic stress effects. I suppose, in a way, it was good that I was exposed to some kind of horror. It helped in maturing me to the horrors that I could face in, what was then, my future.

I'm in two minds about this. Since being exposed to a real situation is different to entertainment media, you would need to treat this seriously with some considerable damage control. I agree that you would need to raise this with the school about age appropriateness of a murder detail. The next thing you need to talk about is to raise the issue with the child about what happened, without going too far into detail. Tell him what he wants to know. He won't ask too much information at his age. After some time, if he still has doubts about his place in the world, you may need to encourage him to "get over it" in some way.

I can't understand how this would have been something that a 7-year-old would be shown by a teacher. Perhaps an older school child trying to look tough among the younger students. Or an article he was shown on a website.