Can you imange the sheer terror that man felt?

[Plaidman]

When he saw a four year old power ranger try to stop him from hurting the kids famiily?

http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/515756.html

[Plaidman]

Well remember, he was FOUR. Not to many four years old know the cold hard truth about the world, and fewer parents want to break that til their six at least.

[NightAngel]

When you try and each your kids to be kind and brave and true... that's exactly what you get.

Part of me hopes he never learns to be any different because if there were more adults like him- think how much better the world would be.

[kerrisan]

At least the family understands that what the child did was risky.

"Crying in my sleep?" Poor little girl.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Well, I started taking down bad guys when I was ten...

I do have to come down with a fury on that counselor, though. I agree that at four a kid might not realize what's really going on. But I don't necessarily agree that it's OHMIGAWDCRISIS if a little kid like that doesn't understand reality and fantasy completely yet. With drugheads and guns, the family might have gotten shot no matter what happened...that sort of mix is completely unpredictable. That counselor saying the kid needs to learn fantasy from reality at the age of FOUR is full of it and probably got their degree from a diploma mill. At that age, cognitively, the kid is still LEARNING what fantasy is, so never even mind telling it from reality yet...a full understanding of the differences between fantasty and reality doesn't typically occur until ten or eleven and can occur as late as 14 and still be in normal parameters. Bonehead.

Anyway, all that aside, this was a very, very lucky kid and family...but no one can deny the little fart is a hero