Terrified is a useless thing. Angry can be useful, if you have a reasonable course of action it can kickstart. Doggedness, though, will give the lie to the tragic view of history every time. But only in the long run.
Terrified of what "they" might do to your kids? Start here: don't push for "them" to keep your kids in school. Don't invite "them" to program your kids with TV & apps & social media. Think it's hard to stay balanced as adults? Now do it with a brain half-baked.
That's why it's your job, parents. Your job to teach. Your job to enrich. Your job to draw lines where *you* see fit, not where "they" tell you. Your job to stop letting "them" haunt you. Your job to do the hard thing: to make your Yes, Yes, and your No, No to your kids.
In the end, nothing beats doggedness in pursuit of reasonableness, even when everyone including your kids thinks you're being fringy or frumpy or wild-eyed or grumpy. Stay the course. Love 'em and tell them so by getting through each new garbage storm together.
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