title: The New Hide or Seek: Building Confidence in Your Child
author: James Dobson
description: "A warm book of rare understanding with much practical material for solving family problems of insecurity." -- <i>L.A. Times</i>
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  JOSEPH CAMPBELL
  
  
  The Hero With a  
    
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  To my father and mother
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # [_PREFACE_](dummy_split_003.html#filepos5314)
  
   _“The truths contained in religious doctrines are after all so distorted and
  systematically disguised,” writes Sigmund Freud, “that the mass of humanity
  cannot recognize them as truth. The case is similar to what happens when we
  tell a child that new-born babies are brought by the stork. Here, too, we are
  telling the truth in symbolic clothing, for we know what the large bird
  signifies. But the child does not know it. He hears only the distorted part of
  what we say, and feels that he has been deceived; and we know how often his
  distrust of the grown-ups and his refractoriness actually take their start
  from this impression. We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such
  symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold
  from them a knowledge of the true state of