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  • 2001-03-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Baby High Chair Death (en)
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  • Very few legends express parental fears about leaving a child with strangers better than this one. The dead baby found in a high chair legend focuses on the most terrible what if? of all: What if the person I entrust the child to proves untrustworthy? Examples: Guilt plays a big part in this cautionary tale. In a chillingly unforgettable way, the parents are punished for attempting to take a vacation from being parents. The moral of this tale is It's a 24/7 job; there is no time off. Did this happen in real life? Oh, probably not. It's hard to conceive of parents who wouldn't call home at least a few times just to reassure themselves that the sitter had found everything she needed and the child hadn't come down with some typical kids' malady or been kidnapped by marauding aliens jetting through on their way to Alpha Centauri. These days parents have a hard time sitting through a movie without calling home — should we really imagine they would go weeks without admonishing Nanny to be certain to use the blue powder and not the yellow on Junior's bottom, never to turn out his nightlight, or to give him his purple dinosaur if he won't settle down for the night? In 2006 a variation on the legend found its way to us: (en)
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