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How Do You Convince A Thirteen Year Old That The Sky Is Not Falling?
Should you present a calm, rational rebuttal or help a prep for Armageddon?
The sky is falling. Or at least it appears that way to a 13-year-old.
The amount of strife and conflict and negativity in the world right now is enough to make even the most oblivious hipster millennial pause and consider world events.
In the past few months, there have been rumors that WWIII is kicking off, a US President was impeached, climate change is moving from ominous warnings to statements of dire emergency, and the doomsday clock is officially the closest it has ever been to Armageddon.
Are we really 100 seconds away from the ultimate disaster?
Is it shocking that young people today have more anxiety problems than any other generation before them? This doesn’t even touch on the social pressures that teenagers face today. The WhatsApp Instagram lives that they lead all recorded on brief TikTok videos.
At least they don’t have to worry about Facebook since that is now only for old people. Have fun, Boomers!
The scary reality of the world that we all live in is nowhere more apparent than in the questions asked by a child who just spent all day…
