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When Truth-Telling Traumatizes the Next Generation

I teach my kids about climate change because I think they should know the truth but they have started having nightmares about the planet dying and I do not know if honesty is the right path.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The burden of preparing children for difficult realities conflicts with the desire to preserve their capacity for hope and joy.

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