When my 6 yo daughter was asking to keep a snake as pet, my parents were dead set against it. Especially when they heard it has the word python on it (a ball python mind you). The myths surrounding snakes aren't good. They even freaked me out by saying that python will get so huge that it'll try to make a meal out of my daughter. And 'the girl & python' urban legend isn't helping either when you try to google keeping python as pet.
Then, I had no interest in snake and never even touched one. But I can't stand seeing my daughter gets heartbroken every time she left the reptile exhibition (she visited daily, even 2-3 times a day). So after a long talk to my daughter about the responsibilities in keeping snake as pet, I bought her the one she fell in love with in the past three days. I kept my parents in the dark at start (they live in a different city) and only after I get the hang out of our lil snake that I informed them. They're concerned about their granddaughter safety but after plenty of video calls, they get to see that the snake is behaving very well. They haven't visit us to actually meet the snake (it's only been a month) but they're fine with it now.
As for me, I never regret bringing a snake home, the little girl is growing on me bad [emoji7]
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