Ok, well what are you proposing then @Littlespace?
You don't think we should ignore a democratic vote and you don't think we should ignore "things".
I don't see how anyone can ignore Brexit, it's all we hear about in and out everyday. The government has not passed Theresa May's Deal, which the EU says is the only deal they are offering. We can't influence that...at all. We had a referendum and the majority decided to leave. If we had another referendum I have no doubt the result would be the same, even if it meant a No Deal Brexit. Those who wanted out, just want out. Now. The majority of them also seem to want out of the Single Market and the Customs Union so wouldn't happy with a Soft Brexit. Which is the option which, at this stage, means the least disruption.
We also had a General Election following Brexit with a party running that wanted to stop Brexit (Lib Dems). They didn't win. The British public, once again voted for a pro-Brexit party (well ish, given the hung parliament result).
Our government can't agree on anything. The Opposition is fighting amongst itself. Meanwhile Dyson and co are moving their jobs out of the UK.
What impact, really, do you honestly think you and I and the rest of Mumsnet can make?
Sometimes you just have to prepare for the worst. That might mean preparing the kids that they might have to just take any job. Many of us, no matter how bright and talented and full of hope we are, have been there. It's not the end of the world and it's not worth making yourself ill over. We all just have to carry on. Like our ancestors have done since time began, through wars, famines, recessions. Life goes on.
Look at all the Doctors and Scientists and Academics who have had to move here as refugees. They've had to take jobs as cleaners, porters, taxi drivers...I'm sure that stung but at the end of the day they were alive and safe and in many cases had managed to keep their families together in extreme hardship.
Go back through your own family. In mine, there's the Irish ancestors who moved to America and Scotland to become miners and factory workers when farming didn't work out. There's generations of Asian family who moved wherever the work was, born in absolute poverty now working for the NHS, in Law, in Universities, as Doctors in some of the best institutions in the world. Along the way they've hawked on beaches, cleaned dirty bottoms and emptied bed pans for way less than minimum wage, sold door to door. And that's before I bring the major wars into the equation. I look at my Jewish friends whose grandparents and great-grandparents have had to flee the worst persecution over and over and they've always rebuilt their lives somehow.
Yes, Brexit is self-inflicted. But it's what the country has decided and we just have to get on with it and know that somehow we'll get through. That's what humanity has been doing since day dot.
Teach your kids to be resilient. That's all you can do.
We don't know what might happen. Prepare for the worst and hope it's not that bad.