Galatea I too was seriously afraid of the end of the worls as a small child. It was almost irrational. The thing is I believe, after having raised my own, and loved and cared for a couple hundred others, that it is actually a developmental milestone.

In a post nuclear threat world (or at least from the view of a 5-7 year old) I have seen kids select things as wild as the sun burning out or exlploding in order to provide the socialized fear of the world ending due to something out of their control. I believe it is an extrememly important point of development where a child begins to realize that the world is something not within their immediate control unlike their parents and friends.

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