Want Your Kids to Be Happy and Successful? Don't Teach Them the World Is a Scary,Dangerous Place, Warns This Harvard Professor

Steve Jobs once said having kids was like having "your heart running around outside your body." Parents will instantly understand what he meant. As much joy as your kids bring you, they bring an equal measure of terror. To be a parent is to be perpetually anxious. 

That's been true since time immemorial, but according to Harvard professor Arthur Brooks in his latest Atlantic column, these days parents often take their natural fear too far. Bombarded by news images of our troubled world and the anxiety of the times, many modern parents end up teaching their kids the world is a scary and dangerous place...