Kids don't understand what they're missing, retreating to video gaming & sit-coms or cartoon characters that YET➡️ undertones ➡️ sensitive, attentive souls unsettled...
call it "cognitive DISSONANCE" between the NARRATIVE, supposedly offering GUIDANCE & ASSURANCE, while delivering sub vocce, "all is NOT explained..., as HAMLET put it, "one may SMILE & SMILE, & STILL be a VILLAIN..."

I'm MARRIED to a guy whose Dad listened to opera on the radio EVERY Sat. afternoon & then march his 6 kids to MASS w/o fail the following morning... My husband loves music in general, but only learned to fight @ home, & aspire to be an engineer, like his Papa. The only Italian he picked⬆️were "BASTA!" & "CHOOCH!"

I think of the line in "Peggy Sue Got Married" where the "Beat" poet declared "NO MORE Mapo, Mom!"

SO many NEED CRASH COURSES in what's now called
DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY.
(b/f it was invented, I recall a book titled, "THE GENTLE ART OF SELF DEFENSE":
LEARN to ID NEEDS + 🤷🏻‍♂