A text alert about a July 4 parade shooting sends his mind racing. Are the most mundane trips with the kids tragedies waiting to happen?
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Life in America: Active Shooters, Escape Plans and Lockdowns
Life in America is not needing to explain to our kids what is meant by an active shooter or being in lockdown. It is a child’s quick, “I know.”
Vanishing Illusion of Safety in Wake of Yet Another School Shooting
Another school shooting. We worry with fear now. Until we don’t. Until the news fades and the pressure of daily life washes it away. We go numb. And we wait.
Our Kids Can Mend the World We Wrought
Whit Honea believes the children are the future, and they can’t lead the way fast enough.
Raising Daughters Without Threatening Their Dates
Put the shotguns and threats away, dads. Raising daughters well means that she’ll be able to handle herself on dates and with men in general.
Kids Need to Change Our Violent World
I’m not protecting their innocence anymore. I’m opening the door wide-open to the violence of the world that they live in, and saying, “Thoughts?”