Category: Parental horror
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Conjuring my Postpartum Anxiety
I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been avoiding this. When I started this blog, I wanted to recount my experience with PPA through a horror lens, but man, I have been writing about almost everything but PPA. Turns out, that shit was traumatic. Thinking about it is not how I want to spend my precious…
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An Unexpected Guest on Our Afternoon Walk
Readers, I kid you not. My kid saw something spooky in broad daylight. Well, waning daylight. Now a quick disclaimer for credibility’s sake: While my kiddos know about my interest in the horror and the supernatural, it is a topic that only comes up occasionally in my house. When my kids ask, I answer their…
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Mirrors: Scaring Children for Generations
What is it about mirrors? I would venture to say that even the most evidence-driven person on this planet gets unnerved standing before a mirror in a mostly dark room, in that one second before she can reach the light switch. It’s creepy. It doesn’t take much for your reflection to change, to shift, to…
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More Demonic Infestation, Writing Hurdles and a Recommendation
That’s quite an agenda for a Friday, now, isn’t it? Hi readers! I hope the two of you are having a great day today. Guess what? My last post mentioned the phenomenon of demonic infestation, and wouldn’t you know it, one of my favorite podcasts, Southern Demonology, recently released a two-part episode that discusses this…
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This is What Scares me Most
Several years ago, my daughter was having bad dreams. Totally normal, right? Right. She was seven or so, and I sat with her before she went to bed and asked her to tell me about the dream she’d been having. Regardless of our parental talents and abilities, I think most of us want to help…
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Blogging in 2022
My 10-year-old is drawn to horror too, so I am trying to figure out what will be ok to share with her and what will send her straight into the therapist’s chair for years to come.
Scaring the Kids 