• Jul. 3, 2007
This scares me...
I have this issue-I'm afraid of those alarms that are placed all over town to warn of emergencies. I grew up with one practically in our back yard and now I have one about a block away. The other morning, when my hubby came in from work about midnight, the siren kept going off in a half hearted little wail. He called the local PD to report it, saying it sounded like there was a short.
This brought up a conversation about those sirens. I don't know why, but they really scare me. I have to make myself be calm when I hear it, so I don't scare the girls. I always think there's some emergency and I need to protect my girls from it, but I don't know what the emergency is! I don't think this logically, I know it's not real, but I have to fight that feeling. Also, the deep wail makes me think of air raids (a bit before my time!) or cold war attacks (as a child of the 80/90's, this is really before my time, too).
What I learned this week also scares me-that children in school are being drilled in what to do during a school shooting! It's called a lock in drill. Now I know that this is probably necessary, but that's half the problem! Not only is it a real risk, but it's also a risk our kids have to know about. Being married to an overprotective daddy who knows the faces of every sex offender in the area (b/c he memorizes them, no joke), I'm well aquainted with teaching our kids about real dangers (and some I don't really think are real, but hubby does), but I'm not all for them knowing about all the world's dangers-especially ones they can't do much about anyway. My mother-heart just breaks when I think of the fear that must be in the hearts of kids taught how to avoid being killed by a classmate. I know just hearing sirens and knowing kids older than me had to do bombing drills (is that what they were?), I can't imagine a child dealing with the fear related to a school shooting. Too sad for me today :(
Okay, sorry that was so heavy! Kiss your kids, blow up some blackcats, and eat your weight in watermelon! That'll put a smile on your face!
Comments
• Jul. 3, 2007
Lock Down
Posted by Denise
Dy was in lockdown in Kindergarten. They had to hide under their desks and teacher had to lock the door. It wasn't a drill either. Some guy was running from the police in a nearby neighborhood and rumored to have run toward the school with a gun. I think it turned out to be bogus...about the fun anyway.
• Jul. 9, 2007
Wow.
Posted by Glory
For real? That is so scary. I'm glad teachers know what to do, but that doesn't make me happy about the state of our world we live in, kwim?