Depends how you look at it. Knowing things have a high likelihood of getting bad helps her focus on skills that are not dependant on a thriving and stable society.
Besides that, she is a well adjusted teenager, who is happy with life, has good friends and recognizes unhealthy behaviour in others.
As with everything else I teach her, this is just a small part of the whole that allows her to keep thriving in this world, while maintaining good mental health. I think most people would consider themselves blessed to have a teenage girl this well adjusted.
Protecting children from the truth is the unhealthy approach. You don’t doom and gloom it, you explain it it calm rational. There is a method to the healthy sharing of information that doesn’t crush a person’s psyche.
Right. I’m not saying “protect from the truth” I’m just saying non-adult minds do not work like ours and one should be very cautious to not impart constant underlying stressors, as we cant perceive how they are consumed. Children don’t have the same “rational” capacity adults do
It sounds like you have a healthy dialog, so I’m just chatting.
Depends how you look at it. Knowing things have a high likelihood of getting bad helps her focus on skills that are not dependant on a thriving and stable society.
Besides that, she is a well adjusted teenager, who is happy with life, has good friends and recognizes unhealthy behaviour in others.
As with everything else I teach her, this is just a small part of the whole that allows her to keep thriving in this world, while maintaining good mental health. I think most people would consider themselves blessed to have a teenage girl this well adjusted.
Protecting children from the truth is the unhealthy approach. You don’t doom and gloom it, you explain it it calm rational. There is a method to the healthy sharing of information that doesn’t crush a person’s psyche.
Right. I’m not saying “protect from the truth” I’m just saying non-adult minds do not work like ours and one should be very cautious to not impart constant underlying stressors, as we cant perceive how they are consumed. Children don’t have the same “rational” capacity adults do
It sounds like you have a healthy dialog, so I’m just chatting.
I completely understand where you are coming from, especially with how many people only perceive and act in extremes.