“feed this cycle of anxiety in families, because the parents never feel calm and safe and that things are okay, and that bleeds down to the kids.”
It is messed up that we are living in some of the safest times in human history, and yet due to having so much access to knowledge about bad things, we are more worried than ever. Kids being independent has been snuffed out in a couple generations. My kid doesn’t enjoy 5% of the autonomy I had as a kid. 
And she lives in a really nice area.
But I see her mom share a post every time someone is at Target and sees some guy get into a van who she was sure was trying to kidnap someone. And since we are connected so well, as story 2000 miles away we never would have heard of can now be on ones news feed. It just feeds the fear monster. Even worse, it also affects our perception of the people around us negatively.
And like the post said - the parent anxiety bleed into the kid. I’ve asked the kiddo if she get anxious or worried about this and things like health stuff (her mom automatically goes to the worst case scenario. I don’t know how many times she has worried she has NF, when some of the to genetics experts in the country have told her it would be impossible for it to be passed down to her.) Fortunately it doesn’t seem to be effecting her… but I still worry about it
