Abigail Gewirtz
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391 appearances
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first heard Jun 2020
last heard Jun 2020
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Um, could provide some some preliminary guidelines for parents.
Right.
I focus on five classes of what I call scary world events.
And um
They really emerge from both my research.
I've s I've s I've spent almost all my career
Studying children's exposure to violence and what parents can do.
Um to
buffer children from these kinds of scary events.
Um and in in that chapter about violence I I talk a lot about violence in schools.
But not only about violence in schools, also uh racial violence and
prejudice against uh religious minorities.
Um
Obviously lockdown drills have become a huge issue and it's terrifying and I've spent a lot of time talking with school personnel about uh lockdown drills and so and actually in my first meeting with my editor
She told me that they had just received their their son was a kindergartner and they had just received an email the day before from the school.
Telling the
parents that the first lockdown drill was going to be held the next day.
And the editor said to me
What do I tell my child?
And that became the basis for the conversation about lockdown drills.
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