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Beware the Ogre in the screen.

Catherine Knibbs- #Online Harms
6 min readJan 31, 2023

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They steal the babies’ souls.

Dear parents/carers/adults and guardians of babies and children

They say its your fault. They say you should know, that you shouldn’t be too busy, too stressed to notice or ‘even give them one in the first place’. They tell you to watch out and they tell what the monster looks like. But you can’t see them. They are very very real indeed. They hunt the babies and children. They live in those screens. You may never see them, but they ARE there.

They tell you the monsters are already in your child’s room. They tell you they are magic and will steal your child’s soul and this much is true if and when they get in.

Quick, Seal the windows, close the doors and cut off the chimney access where the jolly fat bloke at Christmas gets in.

Beware the ogre in the screen

These monsters can entice children like the pied piper or the troll under the bridge. They have houses made of candy cane and gingerbread and they promise children magical rewards.

Rewards paid for “small favours”. Favours collected in secret and lots of these collected in lockdown.

Favours that cost lives, can last a lifetime and can last beyond.

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Catherine Knibbs- #Online Harms
Catherine Knibbs- #Online Harms

Written by Catherine Knibbs- #Online Harms

Online Harms Consultant, Cybertrauma Clinician, PhD’er, Author, Theorist, Polymath, Functional Health, Epigenetic Trauma Psychotherapist (Child/Adult)

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