Like many 8-year-old girls, Shelby Counterman has a doll house in her room. She also something most girls don’t have: Thousands of breeding cockroaches as pets.
–
“A very wise friend told me a long time ago, that you can’t instill your own fears and prejudices into your children. and you have to let them follow what they’re interested in,” Counterman said, according to WFMYNews2.com. “This is something, when she was 18 months old when she started being attracted to bugs. I couldn’t say no. It’s hard not to let her follow her interests.”
