As much as I would like to, I can't protect Smallsteps from the world.
I'm preparing to audition for the role of the Witch in Into the Woods. She sings a song about this problem, Stay With Me. So I've got the topic of wanting so much to protect a child that you harm them. Smallsteps needs to learn how to live, on her own, in this world, not a princess' fairy tale world. Curiously, really terrible things happen in fairy tales! Oh dear now I'm all confused. Are we preparing our children to live in a fairy tale, or is fairy-tale-ish all so very real?
You make an excellent point. The real causes of our murdering each other go untreated, but our access to firearms to protect ourselves gets less and less, with every one of these events. Some say, credibly, that many of the events are managed by tptb. One has to wonder. I know I do. Anything can happen in fairy tales.
I was talking to a client about this a bit this morning. We are preparing children for a reality that doesn't exist, one that puts words at the top of communication, even though it is a sliver of the understanding. One that doesn't let children explore their strength physically to learn what are appropriate reactions. We aren't providing a playground to build mature adults, we are protecting them to keep them children.
Our governments are doing the same, talk about preparing us for a world that doesn't exist. A world full of mindless, dependent beings seems to be the goal. It would be best for tptb if we begin this with our children.