My child worrying about his future and if he'll live

This is a very common theme with our youth.

And no, you don't need therapy for what was shared here. That is the most common response here with people who don't agree. If you think differently, then you must need therapy.
Ludacris.

Between me and my sisters we have 5 "babies." Only they're between the ages of 20-23.
They all feel this same thing to some degree. And yeah, how are we supposed to protect them from this? That power of protection is being taken from us as parents. It has been happening during every single generation that is reading this.

I educated my son, as many other parents have. I knew I couldn't shield him from any of this, and so I talked with him about all of these things, as best I could throughout the years. He learned to think for himself as he got older. Just keep talking with your kid, as you're doing.

It sux our youth feels this way.
We definitely don't need to just brush this off.

S&F

a reply to: TheMichiganSwampBuck

I got a real feel of my own experience from reading your post Buck. I was 9 in 1956 and walking my fathers mail route with him when I heard him talking with another letterman about the Russian tanks and the thousands killed in the Hungarian Uprising. That put my mind in defense mode because we had had so many hide under your school desk practices and I knew it was all going to blow.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Tell him he is a kid, a person of vision that needs to be appreciated. His character and vision sets him apart from the chattel of this world who refuse to see beyond the moment and are willing to accept their enslavement and servitude to the unholy forces confronting civilization in this present.

Tell him to stand strong in the presence of adversity because he is the strength needed to resist the evil that is sweeping across this nation. He IS the resistance of the future.

He is special!

a reply to: ksihkahe

Possibly worth considering good parents are supposed to dispel irrational and exaggerated fears no matter where they originate.

Also, the fact is that it's not the corporate media or chief law enforcement agencies that are bringing up the child and responsible for his well-being and mental health, but the parents.

If the child assumes his family to be right-wing extremists it is most likely because they are, or the alternative is they are letting the poor little fellow view completely the wrong sort of content online, hence the reason he thinks people are coming to get him i should imagine.

Either way, its probably best that the boy is sat down with people he trusts and his irrational fears mitigated before they become something else debilitating that ends up turning in to some kind of serious mental health issue.

As going through life in fear, especially at such an early age, is quite frankly no way to travel, and apt to end in tears.

a reply to: andy06shake

Yeah, sure Andy.

You, allegedly a grown man that is ostensibly capable of functioning as an adult, can't manage to escape the irrational fear of "right wing extremists" that commit roughly 0% of violence and crime... but it should be easy to dispel the kids fears that the label "right wind extremists" having been applied to anybody that doesn't blindly accept authoritarian codswallop is nothing to fear. I'm sure Biden saying they have to be taken out isn't something a kid would fear. I'm sure the media constantly saying how only bad people support the right wing has nothing to do with it. I'm sure the normalization of calls for political violence in public schools, often by the teachers employed at them, has nothing to do with it. I'm sure calling opinions "right wing extremism" and the bundling that with "white supremacy" has no impact on it at all either.

You obviously are still running along in this fantasy of yours where the kid's living with an Aryan nation militia and there is no way that the media or government, which you yourself are a fear slave to, plays a part in maligning right wing political beliefs in a way that instills irrational fear.

In case you forgot amidst your war cheerleading, there are currently children being killed with bombs over politics. I know it's hard to see the forest through the trees when you're one of those constantly gobbling down prophanda for dropping more bombs on children or injecting them with science experiments they get no benefit from. This whole "kids shouldn't be worrying" schtick is pretty rich coming from people that didn't seem to have any trouble when kids lost out on education while locked in their homes over irrational COVID fear porn or excusing when a bunch of children die from bombs they paid for.

Kids should be afraid. The people running the world are deranged sociopaths and the people supporting them are feeble-minded sheep that don't care how many kids die for "democratic values".

a reply to: ksihkahe

It sounds like you have a bit of a fantasy of your own happening there ksihkahe.

Anyhoo the thread is not about you me or silly personal attacks and/or assessments of one another.

But about a child worrying about his future and if he'll live.

And a child worrying about whether or not he's a right-wing extremist by the sounds of things.

Kids should not be afraid, because that's not what childhood is about.

As to the people running the world, well that should not really be of concern to a 12-year-old child, unless of course, the poor little fellow is hearing others screaming about doom porn and Illuminati gibberish and nonsense all the time.

Could it be the parents he's hearing that from, or the internet?

Either way, it's a bad idea to entertain such delusions imho.

originally posted by: Steinermath333

originally posted by: Disgusted123
Sorry, but you and your family need therapy.

If he's twelve and worried about all that, you're doing something wrong.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Agreed. This kid is already seriously messed up and sounds like a future school shooter. Bad parenting is the blame here

Oh piss off. A future school shooter, how do you make that leap? What utter bollocks!

Oh and blame the parents, like kids are always doing what they’re told by their parents! I can’t believe you even got one star for such drivel. Go crawl back under the rock you came from.

If I knew who you were, I would call CPS.

It's all on you as a parent, and yes you are grooming an extremist.

I'm a musician, gamer, and movie buff. Guess what my 13 year old likes? Music, games, and movies. He has ZERO interest in politics, because it's not something that a parent should be hammering into a child's head.

Encourage your kid to touch some grass, and develop some healthy habits. Stop preaching Q and pillow guy h0rsesh1t to him, and he'll grow up normal. Hopefully. The damage may already be done.

a reply to: AllisVibration

The poor wee fellow thinks people are coming to shoot him and his family AllisVibration which must be terrifying to dwell upon no matter where the blame lies really.

A hell of a thing to consider at that age where most kids fears surround the likes of homework, grades, and doing well in school, maybe the odd school bully or two or a girl you may like.

But people coming to blow you away with shotguns should not really be on any child's mind by my guess.

originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: Saibot3052

I have 3.

As parents it's up to us to temper what our kids see and hear. We need to explain to them that what they're seeing and hearing is "doom porn" pushed by a group of people who do it for views, which translates into money. Things could be a lot better, but we're not in danger of being rounded up and killed.

I'm sure that's what the Jews said in the 1930s.
We really don't know and I don't blame him for how he feels. He's just watching youtube, nothing crazy. But the world is in a pile of sh*t right now.

originally posted by: Saibot3052

originally posted by: Disgusted123
Sorry, but you and your family need therapy.

If he's twelve and worried about all that, you're doing something wrong.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

That is absolute rubbish. Kids these days are exposed to all sorts of media that we were not. This kind of accusation is naive and uncalled for.

Thank you

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Why are you right-wing extremists?

That would worry me to be honest no wonder the child is concerned.

Small piece of advice, but if the kid can see an issue, maybe its because there is one.

Exactly what's wrong with society nowadays. I was being sarcastic, note the quotes.

In today's US climate any parents that's concerned about what their kids are taught in school, or what their kids are exposed to (porno in school libraries etc) , you know conservative parents are labeled by MSM as 'right wing extremist'. Biden himself called such concerned parents 'domestic terrorists'.

Pull the band-aid off now and raise them without fear.

Tell him that a piano could drop on him at any moment, so there's no point of being scared.

Death and taxes are all that we are guaranteed in this life.

originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Many people don’t put two and two together to see the big picture.
You probably know deep down the fear sells.
Your child, and most adults are being spoon fed that fear.

Maybe do a little research on the fear from the past and show your kid the hype vs the reality.
The Cold War.
Nuclear war fears.
New ice age.
Five years to end climate change,,,,said 20 years ago
Fukushima will kill the ocean.
Chernobyl!
Covid 19
Zika virus
AIDS
I’m sure with a little thought I can come up with a dozen more.
Either way try showing the kid news articles and videos of fear mongering history.
Some perspective will do him some good.

Thanks that's true, sometimes we get so overwhelmed it's hard to see the big picture anymore.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: Saibot3052

And you do realise that the rest of the post Saibot3052 sums up the parent's feelings on the matter.

I mean if I'm incorrect and the parents are not of the extremist sorts then i apologize.

But at the end of the day it seems to me to be a monkey see monkey do sort of scenario.

Teach a child to love and they will do so, teach them the opposite and they will predominantly follow that ethos.

The little fellow is not happy, or at least that's how it appears, and the reason seems to be fear of how he thinks people see him and his family, which there is apt to be a reason for by my guess.

So basically , in your eyes, self-defence is 'extremism'. Because God forbid I teach my child to stand up for himself with martial arts or any means necessary to stand up to someone with a gun or a group with a gun? Typical.

originally posted by: AllisVibration
a reply to: ScarletDarkness

I remember who you are/were on here now, you and your son. Worrying all the time about when SHTF. I would say your son is most likely picking up much of his fears from you. So here’s what needs to happen.

Live your life as best as you can, WE are all going to die! No point worrying about it. Rather what you need to focus on is gratitude for what you have, compare yourself to someone permanently disabled, or any number of people a whole lot worse off than you are. Focus on good things you have going on, cultivate your resilience, diamonds are only made through extreme pressure.

Focus on the things you can do, not what you can’t, you aren’t going to change the plans of the WEF or such, sure it good to plan and prepare for the worst, but don’t expect it, fear is the mind killer, don’t ever give in to it. Fear and stress are the underlying causes of ill health.

Detox from fear and stress! You’re a human being, made of the same stuff as the stars, and capable of shining just as bright.

The enemy always wants you to feel hopeless, to despair, and wallow in your own self pity. Don’t ever give them that satisfaction, never give in.

Oh trust me , I am ignoring most of the doom and gloom nowadays as it was getting to be too much. I do feel much less stressed about it all , now for my child.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Spoiler alert: your son will not survive.

For every single thing he's worried might kill him, there are 1000s more lurking. Things he couldn't imagine or suspect. Solar flare, brain eating amoeba, giant asteroid, Betelgeuse going nova, rabid racoon, etc. And if you're "lucky" enough to survive all that, you get to die of old age. Spend a couple of years in a nursing home and you might wish Yellowstone had erupted when you were in your 50s.

There is no wisdom in fearing death.

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Then i apologize for assuming so.

All i can suggest is that you sit the little fellow down and set him straight reassuring him that the sky is not about to fall.

Also, the YouTube channels must be a bad influence if he thinks he or his family are right-wing extremists and/or their people are coming to get him with shotguns.

You really need to establish why he thinks that and reassure him that he is in relative safety whilst at home.

Politics seems to be of major concern, i would lose that, and explain to him that the world is somewhat larger than the left /right democrat vs republicans ideology that appears to be the colour of the day.

Just my two cents but if my own kid came to me with such thoughts it would be of serious concern and hes 11 right now, my daughter is 17.

a reply to: andy06shake
I'll bet you brought your kids up on Ritalin, didn't you?

a reply to: ScarletDarkness

Well people have been screaming about this same stuff for decades and it never comes to pass. Its like global warming at this point....probably not even a real thing. Just distraction for the masses.