Calif. No matter how many times we see children lying dead in the streets or students crying in confusion, it is still difficult to comprehend. Similar questions haunt us every time we experience another school shooting. Yet the shootings continue. The sense of powerlessness is overwhelming, leading to enormous fear. Of course, it could.
Children are everyone's business.
As we have pointed out many times, children may be only 25 percent of our population, but they are 100 percent of our future. Psychologist Deborah Rozman, executive vice president of HeartMath, a training and consulting organization that focuses on emotional mastery, is working on solutions. Rozman's group has been hard at work convincing school authorities that today's children are sorely lacking in life skills, including how to control and deal with their emotions. Early intervention is the key. After a crisis like Santana, we all feel a wide assortment of painful and confusing emotions.