I was born in 1959 and if you are my age then you might remember the anxiety the Cold War produced in us kids and how I used to have nightmares about a plane crashing into the moon across an inky blue sky and then the world coming to an end. Well, I just got a notice from a kid’s site telling me as a parent how to reduce the anxiety in my child over all the events going on in the world.<\/p>\n
But, of course, you will have to unwind me, the parent, from the fetal position to do this as I’m the one all this uncertainty has crept into and turned my mind into a nightmare of vipers and militia beasts vying for oxygen. Let me start my motor 9\/11, Federal Flood, divorce, LaLa remodel in post-Katrina times, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Pakistan, Japan (let’s not even mention Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Egypt), 2008-___ Recession, shall I continue?<\/p>\n
Curses to you anxiety and uncertainty. Woe is the adult who can’t find the oxygen mask so that she can succor her child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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