You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bight You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone and welcome back.

On today's episode, we'll be discussing how to talk to your teams about school shootings.

This is nothing that any of us want to talk about with our kids.

I think we discussed doing this before and didn't or something.

Yes, it's so heavy.

It's so sad.

It keeps happening.

You know, every week there's another story of something tragic like this happening,

a school shooting or public mass shooting.

And so it comes up a lot in the news, of course.

It comes up on social media.

There's a lot to be said about it on social media.

And so our kids are seeing this.

Our teenagers are seeing all of this information out there.

So we need to talk about it in our families. It's an important topic.

It's true. And this shooting that took place in this covenant school, I mean, I've been kind of

crying all morning about it and yesterday.

You know, I think the reason that it's, I hesitate in talking about this is because if you'll notice your articles about this shooting are followed not infrequently by a line of psychologists

that are all there to tell you how to talk to your kids about it.

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