Hhhmmm.....maybe say something such as, "Sometimes people have problems in the game of life. You see, these are because I almost lost, and yes it was creepy, and scary. But you see me here, I'm winning see? We all can win if we work hard. You have a special kind of work, that work is to go have fun and no more talk of losing! Let's go win this game shall we?"

I hope that might help. It's hard when the parents are totally ignorant. Just hearing about it makes me completely peeved! X-P

yeah...I sortof gave cats a bad rap with those silly excuses. ;-)