We Need to Stop This From Happening to Our Children

posted by Sarah Arnold at Townhall 

Thanks to the left, who has made kids—honestly, the entire younger generation—soft and easily offended when they encounter a tough situation they don’t like. Instead of being taught to keep their heads held high and walk through fire, kids these days are taught that it’s acceptable to throw tantrums and combust when they don’t like a certain outcome. 

That is exactly what U.S. universities and media outlets are inciting. 

Ariella Cook-hyphen-Shonkoff, a child therapist from Berkeley, California, wrote an article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled “How to Talk to Your Kids About Donald Trump’s Election.”

She claims that children aged seven to ten since “an unstable, unpredictable figure will soon take the country’s helm for a second tour.” 

Here’s how she instructs you how to handle their “grieving.”

Before engaging with kiddos, give yourself some space — and grace — to grieve if you voted for Kamala Harris. Hug someone close, walk in the woods, sit on a beach, cry under a blanket, write in a journal, blast loud music. Just be present with whatever feelings are bubbling up. Check your pulse. Are you feeling heated, reactive or in the throes of despair? If so, delay the conversation. If you’re lost in your own muck, it’s going to be hard to bear a child’s big feelings, worries and questions, and support them. Wait until you feel reasonably calm or grounded. That’s not to say you can’t shed tears or show some anger; emotions are part of our humanness. Find a Goldilocks recipe that feels right for your kiddo… Lastly, wrap up your talk with something that feels like a resolution so children are not left dangling into an emotional abyss.

The reporter instructed parents to inform their children that Congress has checks and balances and that the country’s democracy is safeguarded against “dictatorship.” She also wrote that parents should tell their children how they are going to stand up for the illegal immigrants who may be living in their community or the transgender person down the block. Or how they will comfort anyone who may have been “treated unjustly under Trump’s regime.” 

And it’s no wonder why the U.S. military has seen some of the worst recruitment levels in history. Our future generations have been coddled and turned soft— unless this changes, it will only worsen.