Quoted: “Take a list of things that are really going to be scary (for young children) — vicious animals with big teeth, grotesque, mutilated or deformed characters — and it really describes Halloween,” said Joanne Cantor, an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied the impact of media on children. “The No. 1 thing to know about kids of that age is that they don?t understand the difference between fantasy and reality.”
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