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April 07, 2014

We're not in Kansas anymore

April 07, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl
We're not in Kansas anymore

But at the cinema a few weeks back, I was taken away by a story, struck by a young girl’s trust that things would be all right and then shocked by my own mistrust. We’re not in Kansas anymore, and we’re certainly not in Oz, and it made me sad.

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April 07, 2014/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
film, wizard of oz, stranger danger, parenting
October 26, 2012

They're mostly not strangers

October 26, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl
They're mostly not strangers

Soon after, our son started to have nightmares about the strangers who were going to come and put him in their car. He thought he would have to go and live with them.
 

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October 26, 2012/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
children, stranger danger, families, parenting

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