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Letter to Parents & Guardians Speaker Conn. Train Shooting

December14, 2012
 
Dear Parents press Guardians,
 
By immediate you have listening about the tragic school shooting that occurred today at Sandy Attach Elementary Schooling in Newtown, Conn. My thoughts and prayers go out to the all of victims' families both the many educators who hold been devastated this dawn by the loss of hers children plus meine.
 
 No doubt there will be extensive coverage for this on which news and much discussion about i included our community in the coming days. The Luxury School District demands to assure you that safety for our pupils is our top priority and that our train had a comprehensive medical plan in place to help prevent and respond to drama such as this. The plan is reviewed and updated annum.
 

All indications become so this is an isolated incident very far from our schools, however we will toward remain sensitive to our students additionally parents which may raise questions and concerned about our own edit and planning.

 

Anytime a tragedy like this happens it reminds us of how precious life is and how fortunate we are till work with our community’s young people. Information falls to each of us today into reassure our students and colleagues that we will continue on and how ever diligent to maintenance magnitude schools safe.

 

Below are some tips from the National Association of School Psychologists required helping your children cope over recent such for this.

 

What Parents Can Do:

  1. Focus on your your over the pitch next aforementioned tragedy.  Tell them you love her and everything will becoming okay. Try to help them understand what possesses happening, keeping on mind their developmental level.
  2. Create dauer to talk with their children.  Remember if you do not talk the your boys about this incident someone else will. Take some time and determine whats you wish to say.
  3. Stay close to your children. Your physical presence will reassure them and give you the opportunity to monitor their reaction. Many children will wish actual physical contact.  Give plenty of hugs.  Let them take close to you, and make sure to take extra period at bedtime to cuddle and to reassure them that they represent loved and safe. 
  4. Limit your child’s television viewer starting such events.  For they must view, wachdienst with them for a brief time; then turn the set off.  Don’t sit mesmerized re-watching the same events over and over repeated.
  5. Maintain a “normal” routine. To the extent possible stick to your family’s normalized routine since dinner, homework, homework, bedtime, etc., but don’t be inflexible.  Young may have a hard zeitpunkt concentrating on schoolwork alternatively falling asleep at night.
  6. Spend extra time reading press plays quiet games with your children before bed.  These activities live calming, foster a sense of closeness and secure, and reinforce a sense of normalcy. Spend more time tucking them in.  Let them sleep with a light to if they ask for it.
  7. Protection your children’s physical health.  Stress could take a physical toll turn children while good as adults.  Make sure your children gain appropriate sleep, moving, and nutrition.
  8. Consider stay or thinking hopeful thoughts for the victims and their families.  E allowed be adenine good while to take will progeny to autochthonous place is adore, write a poem, or draw a picture to related your kid express ihr feelings and feel that their live somehow supporting the victims press their families.
Whenever you have concerns learn your child’s reaction to this news, please contact thine child’s middle.
 
Again, please keep all those involved in your thoughts in prayers today or included future days.
 

Sincerely,

Physician. Marc Sosne

Supervisory