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Raising Boys & Girls

Episode 101: How to Talk to Your Kids After a School Shooting - a Message of Hope

Raising Boys & Girls

That Sounds Fun Network

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It's unthinkable that we're recovering from another school shooting that took the lives of innocent children and adults. Child and adolescent counselor, Sissy Goff shares helpful ideas on how to talk with kids after a tragedy like this. This content originated on Sissy's IG (@sissygoff) on Monday, March 27 in the aftermath of the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, TN. We pray your conversations lead to hope and healing. How to Talk to Your Kids After a School Shooting: Stay Calm Be the Source. Let them lead. Give them space to feel. It's okay to feel with them, not to process with them. Answer questions age-appropriately and honestly. Talk about what they can control. Look for the helpers. Be one. Ask what would help them feel safe at school. Don't feel like you have to have all the answers. Remind them of truth you know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey you all you are likely aware at this point there has been a school shooting in

0:05.8

Nashville actually in my neighborhood at a school that I adore called the

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Covenant School so many close friends kids there friends or faculty members

0:16.0

and just and heartbroken with all of this community with you at the fact that

0:22.5

this has happened again and happened down the street and and like so many of you

0:27.8

I just not only am feeling devastated for our community but also thinking what

0:34.8

can I do how can I help and so I wanted to get on because I just have been

0:38.8

thinking about so many of so many of my sister's friends and so many of you

0:45.0

that are picking your kids up from school and thinking what do I say how do I

0:50.3

talk about this with them and so I wanted to jump on and give a few quick

0:53.7

things to to talk through with the kids that you love as you're picking them

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up knowing that none of us know what to say I've started this video over 15

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times because I feel like it's just hard for any of us to know and so okay

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here are a few things to think about number one is I want you to stay calm as

1:09.8

you're talking through this with your kids that they need to feel like you're

1:13.2

okay they need to feel like you are their safe steady place in the midst of

1:17.7

this and that means you may need to grow all the way to school it means you need

1:22.4

to do a lot of praying whatever you need to do to get yourself centered we'll

1:26.5

come back to that at the end just a second number two I want you to be the

1:29.1

source so if you're in this community your kids are gonna hear about it and so

1:32.8

I want you if they haven't already heard about it at school I want you to talk

1:36.0

about what's happened factually age rapidly so be the source number three we

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