Hey, you all, we had the honor of sitting with last night the families from covenant, the educators,

the administrators, and just, you know, continue to be heartbroken in our community and continue

to be so grateful for all of you that are praying for Nashville, praying for the covenant families

that have reached out. And we had a conversation with them last night about some ideas of some things

that we feel like can help and ongoing caring for the kids that are hurting. And so we wanted to

felt like it could be helpful to share those with you. And so we just want to share a few quick

ideas and we want to end in a place of some hope because that is what is sustaining us right now.

And so we just want to jump in. The first would be a reminder that kids' emotions are transient.

So they are going to move in and out of emotions much quicker than we are. They are going to go

from sad to happy to anxious to angry in the span of just a few minutes you all. That does not

mean something is wrong. It is really normal. And they need us to be with them in all of those

places. They need our presence. And on that note, secondly, to have conversations in doses because

kids capacity for staying in conversations is less than ours. Our capacity for staying in grief

is longer. We tend to think about it a little bit like swimming. You know, kids have got to come

up for air earlier than we do. We can hold our breath for longer. And watch for where kids may

be giving you cues or signals that they are ready to stop. I have even had parents of boys say

that they will be talking and their sons will say, can we be done talking now? And it is that

reminder if we talk too long and I can't keep absorbing what we are talking about.

Also, we want to think about some things to watch for. And one of those is to watch for emotions

that are bigger than the situation warrants. A lot of kids are going to be doing that. A lot of

us are going to be doing that right now. To watch for clingingness, to watch for more tearfulness,

to watch for physical ways that their emotions can show up like headaches, stomach aches,

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