In the last month I visited Madame Tussuad's, upon arriving I immediately noticed there where a number of school trips taking place as it was a school day I didn’t think any more of it. There was a particular groups of kids who were in front of me pretty much all the way round the were having such a great time. We went from film stars to music icons into the world leaders. While I was examining the wrinkles in Nelson Mandelas face I looked over and saw the children gathered around the waxworks of Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler. This drove me to question what these children where gaining from this? The children were aged roughly between 5/7 with an adult chaperoning them. The chaperon was telling the children about the things that Hitler used to do to people in his time. I was shocked because it obviously brought on lots of questions from the children.
This brought me to ask myself if I found this acceptable, for such young children to be told quite graphically what some the worlds extremist have done in the past. And whether or not they should be put in the same exhibition as such world changing people, as Nelson Mandela and Barrack Obama? Are we introducing children the negative influences from the past too soon? Or are we teaching them about wrongs and rights?
