As you know, school shootings are an unfortunately too common occurrence, with the latest occurring less than one week ago. As an author, one of my responsibilities is to provide adults with information enabling them to assist youth in managing their anger in order to prevent this type of reactive behavior from becoming part of their lives. To assist adults in these efforts, I will providing ideas in the Second Edition of Peace: The Other Side of Anger. One of the subjects found in this book is gun violence. However, another part of these efforts involves providing additional resources to help in this task. One such format involves relevant articles on this subject.
The article: How to talk to children about school shootings after 2 killed in Minnesota, describes the necessity of adults whose lives touch those of children to speak with them about this all too common phenomenon. This recent incident occurred less than one week ago. This resource can be accessed by putting the url below into your browser.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/talk-children-school-shootings/story?id=98156292
I recommend you do the following:
- Read the article
- Take notes on the advice given by professionals on this subject
- Discuss the topic of school shootings with your youngter(s) following the six suggestions found in the article
- Share this link with others