There are some quirky books around — I read one recently about ‘worst-case scenarios’. There were chapters about how to fend off a shark in the water or how to escape quicksand. It left me wondering what to do if I were attacked by a shark while stuck in quicksand! I think these books are supposed to be light-hearted but a part of me wonders if people might actually use them as reference books.
In today’s society ‘what if’ and ‘catastrophe thinking’ are everywhere. Worse perhaps are those poor modern parents, where thoughts of the worst outcomes seem to dominate their whole consciousness. The fear of not breastfeeding until the child is 5 years of age, the …