Freedom and The Red Eyed Monster
Our older son is quite a sensitive soul. So when he watches a movie or TV series that includes a scary looking red eyed monster that stares into his eyes, he becomes terrified at night. A childhood friend of mine is so scared of frogs that she shivers even when she looks at a drawing of a cute froggy. Our preschool teacher in Shanghai had a phobia for sharks and so my son could not go to school wearing his favourite shirt with a shark on it. To lesser or greater degree we all

