It’s really not ‘climate change’ that is scaring the kids: it’s unhinged members of the Cult of Climastrology, including the NY Times, where this screed comes from, that are scaring them with prognostications of future doom. This really is an opinion piece sitting in the “science” section
Climate Change Is Scaring Kids. Here’s How to Talk to Them.
Hollywood has produced quite a few fictionalized depictions of dramatic climate change. Scores of people die after Manhattan freezes in 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.†In “Geostorm,†released in 2017, the weather goes haywire after satellites malfunction.
Realistic scenarios, though, have been less frequent. Yet Sunday’s episode of “Big Little Lies,â€Â the HBO show about five women living in Monterey, Calif., included a second grader who had an anxiety attack after discussing climate change with a teacher. The girl worried the world was going to end.
Psychologists say the way parents and teachers talk about climate change with children has an effect on their young psyches.
“A lot of people, when they talk to kids, are processing their own anxiety and fears,†said John Fraser, a psychologist and chief executive of NewKnowledge, a social science think tank that studies health and the environment. “Do you think kids won’t be scared, too? As a culture, we haven’t developed good tools to talk about these things.â€
A lot of Warmists, when they talk to kids, shouldn’t be allowed to talk to kids, because they’re bat guano insane and should be seeking professional mental help. And should give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral. See how that goes.
Janet K. Swim, a professor of psychology at Penn State University, said she emphasized several steps for parents (and teachers, for that matter) to take when talking about climate change with youngsters.
“You should start off with something positive, like, ‘We like the planet,’†she said. This should be followed with taking children outside to appreciate nature. For city dwellers, this is as simple as going to a park. Families in more rural areas can hike.
Or, better yet, refer them to people who are grounded in reality, who can explain to the kids that what is going on is nothing unusual for the Earth, that warm periods happen, that certain adults are trying to scare them with doomsaying over yearly temperature increases that are hundredths of a degree, that a 1.5F increase since 1850 is a nothingburger, that everything will be just fine, and that the people scaring them are utter climahypocrites. Further, that they should consider all the policies that Warmists push, and wonder why they all included increasing the cost of living as well as Big Government control of citizens lives, restricting their freedom, liberty, and choice.
