How to talk to worried teen about the future of this country/world

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the wisdom of the Grandmother PP. Also, if there are issues of particular importance to your daughter, maybe she can find a way to get involved. Feeling powerless exacerbates anxiety and depression. It can help to take action, working with like-minded people.

+1. Action does dissipate anxiety. She’s 16 and needs to see the country for what it is a decide how she can change it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s adolescence, OP. I’m the grandmother of a teen and I was just telling him what the Vietnam lottery was like. How we all sad glued to the TV knowing that the first fifty birthdays they called would be going off to Viet Nam. My brother’s birthday was called eleventh and he was drafted. He survived Viet Nam but was definitely changed by it. Our next door neighbor was an early birthday and never came home. I told him what it was like to campaign for Bobby Kennedy and celebrate his winning the California primary when someone walked into the room sobbing that he’d just been shot in the head and died. My dad used to tell stories about the Great Depression when no one had shoes or enough to eat. And then the rising fear of Hitler and the telegram received after his high school graduation that started, “Now is the time for all good men…”.

Avoiding the truths of the world does no one good. Tell your child to be the change she wants to see in the world and get busy.

This post is a gift! Thank you!

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your 16 YO daughter is worried about Roe being overturned, and you don't see that you have a bigger problem? smh

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your 16 YO daughter is worried about Roe being overturned, and you don't see that you have a bigger problem? smh

+100

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It’s a problem for all women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your 16 YO daughter is worried about Roe being overturned, and you don't see that you have a bigger problem? smh

+100

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It’s a problem for all women.

Seriously. Very few people who support abortion rights do so because they expect to ever have one themselves.