Apart from death , what are your worries for your Grandchildren?

The youngest has just started university aiming for a career in the music industry I hope he can withstand the disappointment and the temptations and just make music and enjoy it at whatever level. He is realistic but also talented and keen to get on.

NotAGran55

Are you a journalist BB2013?

Few posts from bb2013, apart from a thread started in September when , again, a short question was posed. Odd.

Are you a journalist BB2013?

the possibility that the UK will become an Islamic country - that worries me a lot.

Don’t be so bloody ridiculous. There are more than 66 million people living in the UK and only around 3 million are Muslim. So around 5%. The UK is not going to become a Muslim country unless 62 million of us up and leave. There are also 1 million Hindus, are you worried about us becoming a Hindu country? Or just brainwashed by the daily Mail into believing every Asian person you see is Muslim?

They won't have babies because of the climate emergency.

Getting beaten up and filmed etc by feral gangs
Has this been happening to people?

This happens a lot. I can’t believe you aren’t aware of this. It happened to one of my son’s friend’s daughter a few weeks ago.

The lies my son and daughter in law will tell about me as my 3 grandson's grow up. Never met the third or know his name not seen the older 2 in person since March 2020 . I didn't do anything wrong so will never understand why I have been cut out of their lives.

Don’t know about feral gangs but there have been news reports of gangs of children attacking others and filming it for the internet. Can’t remember where it was but several girls and a boy had clumps of their hair pulled out.

Getting beaten up and filmed etc by feral gangs
Has this been happening to people?

Ruination of the climate and planet.

Getting caught up in trans ideology and/or DGDs having to pretend that some male people are girls and women.

seriously ?
i just cannot understand that.
you think it's quite likely, why ?

tickingbird I’m inclined to agree.

Nuclear war

I only worry about the here and now no point in worrying about the future I have no control of. 3 of my GC have been helping to care for their sick mum for several years ,,I worry that its too much responsibility for them but we live too far to be there every day .I'm concerned it has affected the girls mental health as they panicked about bringing Covid home and what it might do to mum.
I dont really worry about the others they are very capable and the wee one is just starting nursery ...I might worry about the staff as wee madam thinks she's the boss .lol

I do hear from most of them most days ,and see at least two of them weekly and 3 for weekends .They msg me with queries and to share music with me and anything else they think I'll appreciate ,silly cat pictures ect .

Of all the things I might worry about for my grandson, that would NOT be one of them. Wouldn't even have crossed my mind.

AmberSpyglass

tickingbird What do you mean by the UK becoming an Islamic country? Is that likely

Yes quite possibly and I do worry for my grandchildren.

Slightly suspicious

Where are you bb2013

Climate change

My oldest DGC have more initiative than I had at their age. Whatever stumbling blocks they encounter, I believe that they have the character and education to overcome them. Theirs is the generation who will have to try to undo the damage ours has done to the planet and it's an onerous responsibility but I believe that they and their contemporaries are aware of it.

One of my GDs, now in her mid teens, has MH problems. I hope they get sorted so she can live a happy life.

I worry about their safety, which I never gave a second thought to with my own children.
I worry that Climate Change will force them to live differently as we certainly aren’t moving fast enough to avert a disaster.

Looking back we seem to have had carefree upbringings, but I’m sure our parents worried about our futures too, just that the News wasn't on 24/7 and we just didn’t hear of World Wide problems on a day to day basis, which my GCs find very troubling. As they mature I’m sure they will realise that there are some things that you really can’t do anything about.

Why do you ask bb2013

civil unrest.

tickingbird What do you mean by the UK becoming an Islamic country? Is that likely?

I just hope they’ll be healthy and happy. I try not to worry about Bigger Issues, like global warming, or the possibility of a parent dying far too young - admittedly a black cloud at the moment, since a friend of a dd, only 6 months older, has been given only a couple of years max to live - bastard bloody cancer. ?

If I do get depressed about the state of the nation/the world, I try to think of my parents, who lived through such dark and scary WW2 years, and emerged to have pretty good lives afterwards.