> “The emotional reaction of my kids was severe,” she told NBC News. “There was a lot of crying. They told me, 'We know what’s coming, and it’s going to be really rough.’ “
It depends how she presented the report to her children. Did she just let them watch the news or read it to them. Children pick up the emotional state and anxiety of their parents, and they don't necessarily know how to deal with it.
If her children are having panic attacks over it, not sure global warming is to blame as much as she is. If there wasn't this issue chances are her children would be having panic attacks over globalization, open air slave markets in Libya, how police treat minorities, famine, etc.
I'm not saying you down play the threat, but you have to realize that children are not adults. Almost everything is a new experience to them. And they do not have the tools in order to deal with the emotions.
I was pretty annoyed when my partner's 2 kids came home from school in a complete tizzy over the presidential election. I'm not sure if it was from their friends or their teachers. But they were practically crying, thinking everything was going to fall apart.(It wasn't from either of us)
You have to be very careful about how and what you tell to kids. Especially since something like the presidential election or climate change just isn't something they can truly have an affect on yet.
That's funny. That still makes me sad to this day. But I was pretty broken up over it too. Somehow the fact that I will have been long dead did not matter.
It depends how she presented the report to her children. Did she just let them watch the news or read it to them. Children pick up the emotional state and anxiety of their parents, and they don't necessarily know how to deal with it.
If her children are having panic attacks over it, not sure global warming is to blame as much as she is. If there wasn't this issue chances are her children would be having panic attacks over globalization, open air slave markets in Libya, how police treat minorities, famine, etc.