College Accpetance SUPERSTITION!!!

OHKID
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:49:57 +0000

This is what I like to call a classic case of “Mr. Rodgers Syndrome”

As much as I liked the old guy and his show, he always caused problems for whatever kids were watching it. His show would start off nice and calm with him hanging up his sweater, and BOOM!!! a problem arose. And, as always, he would solve it by saying things like “…okay kids, you don’t need to worry about being sucked down the shower drain” or “…don’t worry, there are no monsters under the bed”.

Anyways, this would lead the average child viewer to think “do I have to worry about being sucked down the shower drain?” or “I didn’t know I had to worry about the monsters under my bed!!!” Then, the kid would become absolutely paralyzed in fear every time they had to take a shower or go to bed with the lights off.

As you can see, the guy caused more harm than good by instilling superstitions and concerns into children’s heads that they never knew they should (or shouldn’t, as Mr. Rodgers so calmingly said) have. This same situation happened to the OP, 16 years later, once again. How sad that members of our society can still be subjected to this method of rationalizing and thinking.