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
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, though I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret...