Are you superstitious?
And as the result I learned to always *think*, not once, but twice, or count to 10, take a deep breath, and ask or check something myself, again, till whatever I understood, made sense to me.
As a child: it gives the child confidence. You ask, and get the best answer from the best, most trusted adult, at that moment in that child’s life.
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One small example: In The Netherlands/specially Amsterdam we *learn*, do not walk under/through a ladder.
Aha aha: that makes a lot of sense, you see. 😄 Why?
There we have window cleaners on long ladders for external window cleaning, with steel buckets full of water + tools of their trade. So it makes sense to avoid it, and walk around it.
Just in case….. of course…. the cleaner falls down, he drops his bucket, (and you break your neck).
So, where I come from: you explain such to your child, instead of saddling the child with superstitious nonsense.
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Another one: a young chap, nearly 30, in Turkey, my current residence/area, once got hysterical about me touching a cat 🐈 😻. Hey, I said: calm down. What is your problem 😕? Don’t, don’t, or you can DIE!!! he moaned. Why? If you get 1 hair in your mouth, you die, he explained, obviously really believing it.
Jeez, I thought, walking away with that cat in my arms, that is too much for me to handle: dealing with such nonsense.
And I never wanted to know why he believed that: except that I felt the young man needs *therapy*, dealing with his fears, his superstitions, his beliefs.
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Another example here: yet another young chap, mid his 20’s, began *ordering*/pulling me away from the beach, the sea waterline, with me tipping my toe for a feel, about to have a nice swim.
Hey, I protested, pulling my arm out of his grip, getting rather irritated. Then: I asked why?
He then pointed in the distance, the far-away horizon where water and air meet. Yes, I can see that my boy. Soooo?
Well he EXPLAINED to me: there you DROP DOWN!! And when that happens, you fall into a huge drum with burning 🔥 hot oil.
Aha, aha, I thought: that young adult obviously had adults when he was a kid, telling him such scary stuff to not go in the sea.
Note: I never took the trouble to change his mind, but it was an eye opener for me, who had learned: this planet is ROUND, and not flat!!
What!! I thought he was joking, but no, he was dead serious, even nice, wishing to protect me.
However for me: terrible that 21st century people still believe such nonsense.
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So…. I am not superstitious!! 🥳
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