An uncomfortable duty to our children

Unless we are sadists we must gently introduce our children to the pain in the world. It is our duty to them. It helps them to be brave. And they will need it. Otherwise if you don't have equilibrium between the extremes of butterflies in fairyland and dismembered starving children in Syria, and they catch a glimpse of it online (because you can't soft kiddie police everything!), you fail. They freak out. The alternative is to prepare your children to prudently keep their head down accepting 'the white noise' of consumerism and the m€dia and technology that distracts us from questioning WAR, RAPE, TAKING YOUR OWN LIFE, HATESPEECH, THE 'BLACK MARKET', PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND NARCOTICS TRADE, HUMAN TRAFFIC, SLAVERY, TEARGAS, SECTARIANISM, MISSING PEOPLE, DISABILITY, OUR ECOSYSTEM, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WHITE COLLAR CRIME, CROOKED GOVERNMENTS and BAD KINGS.