Thanks for Teachers
As we hear the stories coming out of Newtown, Connecticut, one of the stories we're hearing is about the heroism of teachers. The stories are being shared of the teachers who died and how their last actions were to try to save their children, and the teachers who survived and how they ushered their children to safety, keeping them quiet, secure, calm, and safe in closets and bathrooms. I have a school-aged daughter. My husband and I made the decision to talk to her about the tragedy in Newtown, because she's old enough that she'll look over and read the headlines or hear someone talking. We keep news sources around us--a daily newspaper, a weekly news magazine, a news radio station--and she was bound to hear about it somewhere. Other parents, with different habits or younger children, might effectively shield their children from the news, but we knew we couldn't. So she knew a little bit about it when we sent her off to school again this morning. An...