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After a school shooting, what can we do with our pain?

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I’m running out of fingers on my hands to count the students I’ve lost to gun violence. By Emily James

May 31, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Perspective | What am I sending them there for?

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We are a generation of parents who micromanage our children’s safety. And yet, despite the very real fear of death, we keep sending them to school. By Francie Arenson Dickman

January 9, 2020 Culture, Family

My war against squirrels, bullets and grief

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Fourteen teenagers and three teachers are dead who were not dead a few of weeks ago, and my house is falling apart, and my children are at school. By Brianne DeRosa

March 6, 2018 Culture

How to talk to our sons about guns and aggression

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My son plays Fortnite. I’m not worried he will grow up to be violent because of it; I’m worried how the toxic masculinity it portrays affects us all. By Sharon Holbrook

February 22, 2018 Culture

Perspective | Our teachers need to be armed with better gun control laws

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As we reel from watching yet another school shooting, we must look closely at what we are asking of our teachers. By Kim Simon

February 20, 2018 Culture
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