Parenting in the changing climate: Demystify the concept of global warming

Psychologists say the way parents and teachers talk about climate change with children has an effect on their young psyches

Hollywood has produced quite a few fictionalised depictions of dramatic climate change. Scores of people die after Manhattan freezes in 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” In “Geostorm,” released in 2017, the weather goes haywire after satellites malfunction.
 
Realistic scenarios, though, have been less frequent. Yet Sunday’s episode of “Big Little Lies,” the HBO show about five women living in Monterey, Calif., included a second grader who had an anxiety attack after discussing climate change with a teacher. The girl worried the world was going to end.
 
Psychologists say the way parents and teachers talk about climate change with