I agree with all you say, but I must ask, what responsibility to we bear as parents for allowing our children to access news 24/7? Think about it, life is about death, and death has always been at our side. Terrible things have been going on all of recorded history. This isn’t new. What is new is that the constant news cycle at our finger tips. Every tragedy is reported over and over and over again. And we let our children see it. On 9/11, how many people kept their news on, watching the towers fall over and over, with small ones in the room? Do you think that didn’t affect them? Mine were born in 1999 and 2001 and did not see the twin towers fall until they were 7th graders in history class. Why not? Because their minds don’t need to see that. They don’t need to see every mass shooting. They don’t need to hear it when they can’t even participate in civic society. Why did the elders keep the children out of the war tent? Because they were children. When they were no longer children, they were given some sort of ceremony and asked to take a seat at the table and deal with the dirty work of death. Allowing our young kids access to the news of the world without a break, without a discussion, hurts them, very deeply. It hurts us as well, and we’re adults. There are ways to stay informed, and to share what must be shared without the onslaught of imagery and information. But to allow naked access to the information that is driving us all crazy to our children is to break them.