A hard situation, need advice

[Inspired by Reggio]

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three year old don`t talk about that sort of thing unless SOMETHING has happened. Doesn`t mean it was who she said she was but three year old just don`t know about that sort of stuff normally...

Ya once upon a time this was my belief too ... children are just to innocent to make something like that up without first hand knowledge ..... however in 2012 with children being exposed to the NEWS over dinner and parents assuming they are not 'listening' not to mention so many other adult orientated conversations and topics in the media these days .... I had a parent in care who allowed their child to be in the room while they watched CRIMINAL MINDS assuming they were too young to 'proccess' what was being said .... needless to say due to the access of information in MEDIA children are being 'sexualized' so much earlier and given access to images and information that their little brains cannot process properly and in learning to DEAL with those images and topics and so forth more and more they are capable of imagining things having happened to them that they have heard or saw about on TV or overheard parents talking about between themselves and so forth but they believe is REAL to them!

I worked in a centre where it amazed me what children were being exposed to and the stories that were told as a result ... we constantly had CAS having to be called to get to the bottom of what was reality in children's live and what was them processing movies and shows they had been allowed to watch at home while in the care of people who did not GET the rating scale.