Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive - it's a vanity.
Madness string 20400
Time is a non-linear probability cloud where nothing is real and everything is permitted. We're talking non-binary states. There's no 'now'. Past and future are conceptual affordances that we use to instantiate a representational understanding of how we exist within space-time, by breaking it down into inaccurate but functionally usable specific definitions. Death is kinda the same thing.