Guiding Your Children to Live with Positivity in a Negative Time
These are difficult and challenging times, especially for young people who have many reasons to feel concerned as they look to the future. On an almost daily basis, they are bombarded with reports and forecasts of climate disasters, facts about income and justice inequality and encounters with homelessness, poverty, violence and mental illness. And as they look into their personal future, they worry about paying for health care and having good options for education of their children.
Young people’s reactions to these scenarios are ominous but understandable: High levels of depression and anxiety. Deaths by suicide and from mass shootings. Enormous debt and difficulty saving. Fear of walking on city streets. And an overall loss of faith in the good will and effectiveness of social institutions, from government to education.
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