The story about children fretting about global warmning and terrorism actually doesn't surprise me much..

When I was ten years old, the Gulf War stormed into my life.. It was on TV, we studied maps in my grade school classroom of countries we never heard of before. We fretted to our teacher--now deceased God rest his soul--that Saddam Hussein may reach the United States with his weapons of mass destruction..

We were worried children. Just as kids back in the Cold War as Billy Joel sang about.. Heads under their desk in an air raid drill.

Does the news contribute? Yes. Are there things to truly worry about? Definitely. It's just too bad kids can't worry about tests and school work, as opposed to the needs of the world that they can't change, fix, or often handle.

I was a worried child.

Our kids come to age earlier and earlier each generation.. Soon childhood as we know it will be dead...