On Friday, Dec. 14, the nation experienced another tragedy. In
the words of several first responders, it was the worst tragedy
that they had ever witnessed. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza shot
and killed six adults and 20 schoolchildren between the ages of
5 and 10. As a nation, we grieve on several different levels. We
grieve for the administrators, teachers and children that are
supposed to come home at the end of each school day. We grieve
with the families, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters,
aunts and uncles, grandparents who are now faced with the pain
of their great loss. We grieve the unimaginable reality that
this has happened. It makes no sense. There are so few answers
to the many “why” questions. Now it is time for us to mourn.
Some of us will mourn with tears, some with talk, some with deep
thought and some with action. There is no right or wrong way to
grieve and mourn, but it is important that we do. But what about
our children? How do we help them? In both grief and trauma
there are steps w