[blparent] School shooting drills?

Tue May 8 17:19:38 UTC 2012

The best book Gab and I ever read pertaining to monsters in your bedroom was
called  "If you can dream them in, you can dream them out."  It really did
make sense on how those monsters got in and why they never came back.

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] School shooting drills?

Another technique for monsters is to have one of the parents go in and chase
them out the window, then tell them to stay out.  Sarah's dad did that, and
when she was afraid of bees, he went into her room and got them all--they
were imagined, of course--and threw them in the trash can.  Man, was he her
hero!

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Tay Laurie" <j.t.laurie at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] School shooting drills?

> An example is monsters under the bed. Of course adults know there 
> aren't any monsters under the bed, but kids up to a certain age don't. 
> One way I remember reading about that may help some children is to 
> "deputize" a favourite teddy or stuffed animal. Have the child ask 
> their teddy to help keep the monsters away, and either you can, or the 
> child can imagine the critter saying "yes". YOu can also, if there are 
> no contraindications, put a tiny drop of lavender or similar oil on 
> the bear's ribbon, or tie one on and stitch it down, then ad the oil.
> I actually as an adult have used this technique on a couple of young 
> kids I watched. My aunt Judy did that with angels. She told children 
> that slept in her guest room (chock full of angels, statues, the 
> quilt, wall hangings, you get the drift) that the angels would protect 
> them, and they slept very wel in that room.
> Now, with the shooting drills, it's a little different. You can't use 
> quite the same technique, and you'll have to find one that works with 
> your children. My grandmother explained it to me as sort of like 
> practising for going to the doctor. When the real thing does happen, 
> it's not going to be as scary, and the whole process will go smoother 
> with fewer questions, because you know what to expect ahead of time.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] School shooting drills?
>
>
>>I grew up in the 1950's, and the drills I remember were for a nuclear  
>>attack.  I still remember being lectured on how to give yourself and  
>>family  the best chance to survive a nuclear war.  Now the threats are 
>>different,  but still the sad realities of our time, as it was in the 
>>past.  Be  honest  with your kids.  Reassure them that it's not 
>>likely, but good to know  what  to do.  It's a fine line to explain 
>>probabilities to young children, and  kids vary greatly in their 
>>tendency to fixate on disasters.  You kind of  have to listen to get a 
>>sense of how they respond to exposure to  unpleasant
>> -- make that terrifying possibilities.  Very hard to know whether 
>>they  can  understand the difference between prudence and paranoia.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Veronica Smith [mailto:madison_tewe at spinn.net]
>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:05 PM
>> To: 'Jo Elizabeth Pinto'; 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] School shooting drills?
>>
>> So when Gab started school 5 years ago, she was terrified that there 
>> would be a fire at school and at home.  Reality, there might be and 
>> how does one assure a 5/6 year old that it is safe to go to school or 
>> better yet sleep in your own bed.  Whether a fire drill or a shooting 
>> drill, the fear is instilled into our children.
>> I would like to believe that none of the above would ever come to my 
>> child's school, but the reality is we just don't know.  the only 
>> drills that I have ever been apart of was a fire drill, but what 
>> would I do if a gunman came in, I've never been taught, I've  never 
>> been drilled.  Gab says they have fire drills now and then and lock 
>> down drills.  The first time I heard that, a lock down drill, I was 
>> terrified and thought to myself, I take my child there, do we live in 
>> a bad neighborhood, WTH But it happens everywhere, in good 
>> neighborhoods and in bad.  If a bad peep wants to come into my 
>> neighborhood, all they have to do is jump in their car and go.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>> [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 6:15 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: [blparent] School shooting drills?
>>
>> Students Participating in Fake 'School Shootings' May End Up More 
>> Anxious Than Prepared
>>
>> Posted by Jeanne Sager on May 2, 2012 How's this for unsettling? I 
>> hit the website of my local paper to see pictures of a school up the 
>> road from me filled with cops brandishing big guns. The good news? It 
>> was all a drill. The bad news? High school shootings have now become 
>> so commonplace that teachers and students are now practicing for 
>> them!
>>
>> The photos from the local school are an example of a national trend. 
>> Mock shooting drills are now lined up on the school calendar right 
>> along with the fire drills of our youth. This is our reality.
>>
>> Schools here in New York. Schools in Florida. Schools in Michigan. 
>> They've
>> all let men with guns into the building so teachers, and in some 
>> schools, the teenagers too can practice -- in a safe manner -- what 
>> to do if a child turns into a killer. They're hoping to save lives by 
>> being proactive.
>>
>> I trust the members of law enforcement who led the shooting scenario 
>> in my area. I understand their reasoning for trying it out. I want my 
>> kid to be properly prepped for an emergency. I went through fire 
>> drills and mock DWI accident drills and God knows what else drills 
>> back in my day, and I admit they helped. When I hear a fire alarm, I 
>> know what to do.
>>
>> But that doesn't mean I like it.
>>
>> Yes; a shooting may happen. But actually, thankfully, the statistics 
>> say it probably won't. Just this February, in the wake of the 
>> horrific shooting in Chardon, Ohio, Justice Department's Bureau of 
>> Justice Statistics released a study showing school-related violent 
>> deaths are at an all-time low since it began tracking such deaths in 
>> 1992. And these are the statistics we need to focus on.
>>
>> We send our kids off to school each day thinking that they are going 
>> to a safe place. We aren't naive. We're aware there are shootings. 
>> But we have to focus on the positive in order to get through the day, 
>> in order to entrust teachers with our most precious "belongings" so 
>> to speak. The reasoning is two-pronged. It's to make us feel better, 
>> but it's also to comfort our kids.
>> This is a place where they spend much of their lives; they need to 
>> feel safe there.
>>
>> A school shooting drill takes the careful fantasy we have built and 
>> rips it in two. And for what? For the possibility that there may be a 
>> shooting at our kids' school?
>>
>> I understand why law enforcement is suggesting these drills. But if 
>> they are the new normal, I'm afraid of what we're accepting as 
>> "normal."
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