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Chapter 11, Some Objections Answered, Science and Health 1910, Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.   
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12	    Would a mother say to her child, who is frightened at
  	imaginary ghosts and sick in consequence of the fear:
  	"I know that ghosts are real. They exist,	                                  Ghosts
15	and are to be feared; but you must not be	                          not realities 
  	afraid of them"? 
  	    Children, like adults, ought to fear a reality which
18	can harm them and which they do not understand, for
  	at any moment they may become its helpless victims;
  	but instead of increasing children's fears by declaring
21	ghosts to be real, merciless, and powerful, thus water-
  	ing the very roots of childish timidity, children should
  	be assured that their fears are groundless, that ghosts
24	are not realities, but traditional beliefs, erroneous and
  	man-made. 
  	    In short, children should be told not to believe in ghosts,
27	because there are no such things. If belief in their reality
  	is destroyed, terror of ghosts will depart and health be re-
  	stored. The objects of alarm will then vanish into noth-
30	ingness, no longer seeming worthy of fear or honor. To
  	accomplish a good result, it is certainly not irrational to
  	tell the truth about ghosts.