01/11/2006
Trick or Treat
First of all I'd like to say a huge thank you to all those reviewers and readers who have posted or e-mailed me privately with such lovely comments about my delicious Sheikh Shahin of Kaddara... he of the stern brow and melting heart. (well, it melts eventually after a sustained campaign by our heroine Zara Kingston)
I loved Shahin in particular because although he reigns omnipotent in the kingdom of Kaddara Shahin is a slave to duty and therefore subject to rigid boundaries of his own.
When love enters his life Shahin has a dilemma- and that dilemman is made all the greater by the fact that the woman he falls in love with is much younger than him, and also both his ward and a virgin.
Honour means everything to Shahin, and he is more than used to self-denial, so what will he do?
On to the subject of trick or treating... something I wouldn't allow my children to do- yet I had a bag of sweeties at the ready last night.
I just don't feel happy that little children come to the door- and in one instance while I was on the phone, take sweets from a strange man (dh, strange? Only a little odd, I promise you, but then we both are...)Yes, I know the parents were waiting at the gate, but doesn't this encourage children to think it's okay to take sweets from strangers- and don't we spend hours telling them that it is not.
Do perverts wear banners over their T-shirts procaiming the fact??
Aren't some perverts family men with wives etc etc??
Sorry, girls, but that's my rant for today and you know me by now, I have to speak my mind.
Thank you all once again for your kind words and thoughts and I should be able to tell those of you who asked when my next book is coming out- but you know me...
Perhaps I'll post a list of releases tomorrow for those of you who are interested.
Thank you so so much. You don't know what your warmth and friendship means to me.
Hugs around the world
Susan
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We don't get trick-or-treaters where I live and never have. We didn't trick-or-treat much as kids because we don't live in a good area for trick-or-treating. We would go to carnivals or to my aunt's neighborhood.
Rant away! I know what you mean about worrying about kids though..it does seem odd that we teach kids not to talk to or take candy from strangers and then let them. Where I live they required all of the registered sex offenders to report to parole officers and they had to stay from 6-9 p.m. so they wouldn't be tempted to offend again (as one law official said). It was the local law enforcements way of making it a bit safer for kids. Of course that didn't take care of the ones who haven't been caught.
Rant away! I know what you mean about worrying about kids though..it does seem odd that we teach kids not to talk to or take candy from strangers and then let them. Where I live they required all of the registered sex offenders to report to parole officers and they had to stay from 6-9 p.m. so they wouldn't be tempted to offend again (as one law official said). It was the local law enforcements way of making it a bit safer for kids. Of course that didn't take care of the ones who haven't been caught.
I dunno, I think we're in danger of removing many of the joys of childhood through what I see as being over protective. There were just as many paedophiles around when I was a child (I'm 46) but we still went Carol Singing and took money from strange men. We also went around collecting money for charity or selling raffle tickets in connection with our schools. How many of us came to harm? Possibly a few more than today but what price are we paying for it? No, I'm a great believer in letting children enjoy being children. As you say, the mothers are almost always waiting at the gate and it really isn't difficult to explain the difference between accepting money from strangers with their parents' approval and otherwise.
Sorry... just had to join in the rant!
Sorry... just had to join in the rant!
Welcome to the rant, Sharon. That's what rants are all about!!!
My kids agree with you, btw
Their points:
Give the kids some credit
Why did you have a bag full of sweets standing ready at the door?
Okay, already. They don't call me Ninja Carrot for nothing.
My kids agree with you, btw
Their points:
Give the kids some credit
Why did you have a bag full of sweets standing ready at the door?
Okay, already. They don't call me Ninja Carrot for nothing.
I have to agree with your kids Susan about giving children credit...while I did say it was odd, I do believe children are intelligent enough to know the difference between trick-or-treating and taking things from and talking to strangers at other times. Kids are a lot more observant than we think.
It does seem that parents and adults are a lot more protective now than they used to be...I wonder if the media has a part in that...cases with kids seem to get a lot more attention.
Sorry for rambling.
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It does seem that parents and adults are a lot more protective now than they used to be...I wonder if the media has a part in that...cases with kids seem to get a lot more attention.
Sorry for rambling.
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