I thought I’d mention this here and get your thoughts and opinions. As some here know, I’m a father. I’m also a father of a child with neurological injury. When you’re a parent you normally get to know many families with children. Being a parent in America over the past couple decades has been, to put it mildly, mind-blowing. Not only am I a parent – but, like many of you here I’m observant and philosophical. I’m also well-trained and well-heeled in science due to my work.

I wanted to mention here something I’m seeing and something that a lot of people are seeing and that the MSM doesn’t seem to want to cover. Children are really, really suffering with mental health problems. My own son is seeing a therapist. He’s doing well. But, it was clear when I would talk to him to try to help him with his struggles he wasn’t listening to me at all. Teenager. My wife and I were talking last night and realized that at least half the kids we know from 12 to 18 are in therapy. One little girl we know who’s 16 is probably going to be institutionalized. This breaks my heart. Her parents are great people and excellent parents. At school it seems that bullying has stepped up after the covid shutdown. My pediatrician is transitioning into retirement, slowing down. He and I are close, and he said he’s thinking about going into phone therapy for kids because that’s a majority of his work lately: Panicked parents calling asking for help their distressed kids.

There’s a lot to unpack here. But, I am sure that a few things have changed from my generation to this recent batch of kids. These kids get a lot of screen time. They rarely do outside activities. Most don’t do any outdoor activities. These kids are often repeatedly bombarded in schools with messages about transgender stuff and, as in my son’s previous high school in California, woke antifa-like rhetoric (white privilege, destroying people’s property to “get their attention”, etc.). This stuff is very hard on kids, in my opinion. It’s confusing and mostly a message rife with anger. Kids don’t need this crap. I know several transgender kids. There are a lot of kids claiming to be gay. Whether or not one thinks that’s a good thing, both sides agree that it is associated with mental illness/suicide. Perhaps it’s just correlation. Perhaps it really is due to bullying that these kids get for their proclivity.

There are a few 300-pound gorillas in the room in terms of chemical environment. The CDC childhood vaccine schedule has exceeded the EPA MCLs for mercury levels, apparently by mistake. Oopsy. That doesn’t help. And, it has recently come to light that the source of the arsenic we have been finding in developmentally disabled children was from fruit puree baby foods produced in China. The media refuses to talk about this. These things are terrible for a young person’s brain. Not a peep in the media… Glyphosate is in a lot of things we eat – from our breakfast cereal, to pasta, to our salads. The jury’s still out on that in terms of what the health effects are.

Then, recently I heard Stephan Molyneux say something that stuck in my craw. The left and the right will say they’re “for the children”. Yet…If one’s for the children how can they be in favor of running up $30T in national debt (not even counting unfunded mandates)? My brain’s been chewing on that and I think he’s got a good point. Kids aren’t stupid. For them to just watch the news and see how we’re f’ing up the country has got to be tough. I know my son notices it. I see it in his questions about things.

This seems like a long, twisted rant probably. But it’s an inquiry. Do you see these things too in kids you know? What are your thoughts? How does it bode for America’s future? I find it all very concerning.