treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector
, they mean? Scary stuff. Seriously, though, sympathy that you have to deal with this kind of thing.
DS8 isn't seriously anxious but does tend to latch onto concerns and not be deflected, or reassured by "it probably won't happen". I shield him from news (easy, we don't have TV and I get my news fix from the web and from listening to the radio in bed) but am starting to be concerned that he is, therefore, ignorant about world affairs. Once he is concerned about something, we have to discuss it properly, and have some kind of a plan for dealing with it.
