The issue of children's mental health, and the impact of adult's mental health--is a long interest of mine. It comes down to spreading the 'fear' virus, by any other name. When will adults and institutions of our society begin to really see how immature they often are in how they spread anxiety, fear, terror--to children. I have made several youtube videos on this theme as well for several years, calling it "philosophical disability" and "political disability" that exists in the adult population--it exists because such adults are not willing to admit they spread 'fear' in contagion. And, now we have a president of the US who is doing just this--spreading the 'fear' virus to children, and not for a moment do they recognize they are doing so. We have a long way to go, don't we adults? Let's get started... watch what you say about the world and its crises, day-to-day, night-to-night, and all year long--there is no reason to over-scare children about anything; check yourself up. Deal with your own fear, anxiety, terror, dread. Children don't need you dumping and projecting 'fear' onto them. Own it and work with it, heal it and transform it. I know this requires adult responsibility and discipline. So what.
READ, the following article for starters: Patrick, E. (2024). How does adult talk fuel our children's climate anxiety?" https://medium.com/@empatrick/how-does-adult-talk-fuel-our-childrens-climate-anxiety-7fc8e4351687
