Reminder not to spoil my older daughter's gift...

My older daughter is uncomfortable with "scary" rides (both in content and in motion).  She inherited her tentativeness about motion thrill rides from me. 

 

However, she was also uncomfortable with Honey, I Shrunk the Audience and Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin primarily because of their content.  As such, she has wanted to stay away from both Pinnochio's ride as well as Snow White's ride at Disneyland.  She was even a bit tentative about Fantasmic.  On the one hand, one could view her fears at age 6 1/2 as something abnormal.  That said, given how desensitized kids are to violence and aggression today, I would very much not like to spoil what parents often take away from children.

 

Disney has some downright scary characters - Snow White's evil stepmother, Malificent from Sleeping Beauty, and even Ursula from The Little Mermaid.  I've written in this blog before about how I think my older daughter has the gift of a high level of consciousness, and somehow I think it's part of my role to recognize that and not spoil it.

In Hawkins' book, he refers to how rap music and Heavy Metal have been shown to lower levels of consciousness.  I used to enjoy rap, and upon returning the Bay Area, I enjoyed listening to it.  That said, I could almost feel myself slipping back to my old ways seeing old friends, driving old highways, and listening to the music I used to listen to.  I thought a good start to keeping perspective was to stay away from the rap music which I managed to do except for one night with friends at a Happy Hour that went until the wee hours in the morning...

 

While I don't want to force my older daughter to be puritanical, I also don't want to be the one to spoil her own innate desires either.  She herself is trying her hardest to stay away from the negativity.  Perhaps she knows something we do not.