To be terrified for our kids?

[Worrywortt]

I’m so worried about what the world will look like when this generation become adults. I look at my DC (8months and 3) and feel almost guilty that I’ve brought them into such an environment. I don’t know how I should prepare them or what I should teach them. How can you prepare or save them from all these?

• Social media effects/ AI
• Ultra processed foods
• climate change
• cost of living and housing crisis
• divisive politics and divided communities
• global instability

I’m so worried all the time.

Most parents through history felt like this. Try not to worry.

The people in UK who had kids in 1942 don't you think they felt they were bringing their kids into an actual war zone

A friend of mine whose sister was quite a bit older than us, her mum had her covered head to toe incase if acid rain!!! It's always something surely

Look on another note...growing up in an area of high sectarian violence and close relations to Northern Ireland troubles it was bad then. But it didn't frame my childhood. It was just something that was happening on the periferie try and live your life

I worry as well but I tell myself it’s always been like this with something or other we just hear about it more now. I am not convinced though.

the think that bothers me is that many people don’t seem to care about others any more.

What ever happened to acid rain you don’t hear about it now?

There’s always something. Why? Because humans.

I understand why you feel this way, but think of how other parents felt.
When my mum had me the hole in the ozone was predicted to become so large that we would all end up with skin cancer. We were going to have a nuclear war in the future. And unemployment was high.

In reality CFCs were banned and the ozone hole was mended. Nuclear war did not happen, although there were plenty of wars. And the economy improved, although it got worse again, improved and got worse again.

There has always been global instability. There will continue to be. There have always been things that threaten our health (UPFs), there will continue to be. Climate change is already happening, but in Britain we will be more insulated from it than some countries. We will have wetter years, and hotter summers, and some people who live in places prone to flooding will have to abandon their houses. But otherwise life will carry on as usual for most people.

In the eighties I heard people saying that we should not have children because of climate change and nuclear war. But many people did, and those children are now adults with children of their own.

Enjoy your life, and don't borrow trouble i.e. do not worry about things that have not even happened.

@Plopandflop People becoming more selfish happened after the 1918 flu pandemic as well. Apparently it always happens after pandemics. It will change again.

I have similar age kids and feel the same OP. I don't know what to suggest.

Get some help with your anxiety. There have been things for parents to worry about in every generation. Your anxiety will impact negatively on your children if you don't get it under control, and you will drive yourself crazy in the process.

You didn't realise this 4 years ago? 🤔bit late to worry about it now...