How do you feel about 'scare tactics'?

[JustBoo]

specifically scare tactics used to steer children away from dangerous practices such as drinking and driving and drugs?

I once heard of a high school presentation which brought in hypnotists , they hypnotized a dozen students and then led them to think that they were involved in a drunk driving accident - one was the driver , one was a passenger , others were hit or in another car that was hit and some were those who came upon the scene. The rest of the student body watched as this went on.

Would you want your child to attend this? What about being one of the hypnotized?

 

[Leanna]

Would you want your child to attend this? What about being one of the hypnotized?

No way. The schools should stick to education and leave moral issues to the parents.

 

[-~Truth_N_Trust~-]

that example, no way, mostly because of the hypnotism.

Scare tactics in general, well, the truth is scary and they need to know and understand the risks...

 

[Linnis]

I saw this on TV once. I thought it was a real crash taken place at a local high school. Nope it was a 2 hour long scene of a drunk driving accident involving two cars with drunk teenage drivers. It showed damaged cars, blood, a girl being put into a body bag etc. All to show kids what a wreck looks like. It was really realistic and I was shocked that it was not real and that the kids were allowed to watch it. It even had the dead girl's mother show up hysterically screaming as her DD was zipped into the body bag.

Isn't there enough, death and violence in the world without exposing our kids to it on purpose?

 

[lucypevensie]

It's fine to present the facts, scary as they may be, and as long as it's age appropriate. But I wouldn't go for the hypnotism. I'd think that the kids would be more impressed by the actual hypnotism "trick" than the drunk driving truth.

 

[Laurie919]

I can deal with scare tatics, but I would refuse the hypnosis.

Our church does a program every couple years called FinalExit and it is basically a scare tatic. It works hundreds of people get saved. The only bad thing is that they don't stay in church.

 

[Neenie1]

I think children who are old enough to get their license, need to know the truth about drink driving and drugs and all that. If this involves scare tactics then so be it.

In my high school years we watched videos on it, we were told if we felt we needed to leave the room we were allowed to do so, but really, the kids need to be told, they need to be shown what a mess drink driving causes and with some kids it's the only way.


I wouldn't agree with hypnotism, and I sure hope that the students who participated in it, had notes from parents to say they could participate in that. There is no way I would want my kids involved in hypnotism.

 

[HOPEOF9]

Sometimes the truth is scary, but most of the time if you are scared into something, you can be scared out of it also.
The scripture says we will win them by our lovingkindness. You can be truthful without using scare tactics.

 

[Jilly123]

I think children who are old enough to get their license, need to know the truth about drink driving and drugs and all that. If this involves scare tactics then so be it.

In my high school years we watched videos on it, we were told if we felt we needed to leave the room we were allowed to do so, but really, the kids need to be told, they need to be shown what a mess drink driving causes and with some kids it's the only way.


I wouldn't agree with hypnotism, and I sure hope that the students who participated in it, had notes from parents to say they could participate in that. There is no way I would want my kids involved in hypnotism.

That's how I feel too.

 

[Athene]

There's a lass in my town who lost both legs in a drunk driving accident, she was a passenger in the car and the driver had had a few too many. She now goes round schools leading seminars on the dangers of drunk driving, I hope she's still doing those seminars when my kids are older because I want them to see her, and to see the consequences of drunk driving. I don't approve of hypnotism but I like those 'real-life' demonstrations, they're very hard hitting.

 

[JulySheMustFly]

There is one thing to tell them the truth with real stories to support that truth. It is another to hypnotize children to play out a scenario.

I'm not a fan of scare tactics of any kind. They smell of sensationalism and IMO remove the reality of the situation because any intelligent child knows that they are trying to scare them into doing what is right. That's not really educating.

 

[fuzzymel]

There's a lass in my town who lost both legs in a drunk driving accident, she was a passenger in the car and the driver had had a few too many. She now goes round schools leading seminars on the dangers of drunk driving, I hope she's still doing those seminars when my kids are older because I want them to see her, and to see the consequences of drunk driving. I don't approve of hypnotism but I like those 'real-life' demonstrations, they're very hard hitting.

I really think that is the best approach.

Hearing from a person who has been through it has far more impact in my opinion.

 

[Christdefinesme]

No support for that from me!
There are better ways to present information and statistics to help people make well informed, good decisions.
Manipulating kids/people into doing what's right never works permanently.
I would be very angry if a school hypnotized my kid without my permission........or showed them a very graphic movie without my permission.........that is just wrong in so many ways.......
I am glad my kids aren't in the public schools........

 

[JustBoo]

for the record the kids were able to be taken out if the parents took issue with what was going on and the kids were welcome to excuse themselves if they couldn't handle it.


For those who only take issue with the hypnotism -if that wasn't involved how would you feel about the idea of scare tactics in general?

I also heard of another idea: they now make ' drunk goggles' and put a kid wearing them behind the wheel of a go cart in a controlled environment ( nothing for the kid to run into that would cause any major trouble , only one kid on the track at a time e.t.c.) and then also put a passengar in the go cart.

I'm divided - part of me thinks sometimes kid need these extreme things to get into their heads due to that sense of invincibility but the other part of me thinks that we need to treat kids as reasonable people and appeal to their senses.

I don't know.

 

[heart of peace]

The schools should stick to education and leave moral issues to the parents.

I completely agree with you but the truth of the matter is that many parents are no longer doing the duty of teaching their children moral issues for various reasons. The schools are having to incorporate moral lessons in their lessons more and more. It is a very unfortunate occurence in our schools (here in the states)

There is one thing to tell them the truth with real stories to support that truth. It is another to hypnotize children to play out a scenario.

I'm not a fan of scare tactics of any kind. They smell of sensationalism and IMO remove the reality of the situation because any intelligent child knows that they are trying to scare them into doing what is right. That's not really educating.

It does breed a sense of objectifying real people and not seeing them as individuals. What a way to indoctrinate our children into the world of "Breaking News" stories that seem to pop up daily even in local news channels. No, thank you. This is the main reason why I would object to it, the sensationalism. Where is the respect for human life in that?!