School Shootings. How They Appear And How Parents Can Stop Them

We created a world filled with anger. It is up to us to change the world for the better. For the sake of our kids.

Year 2013: 25 incidents of school shootings, 18deaths, 34 injuries…
Year 2014: 36 incidents of school shootings, 17 deaths, 34 injuries…
Year 2015: 20 incidents of school shootings, 19 deaths, 41 injury…
Year 2016: 2 incidents of school shootings, 1 injury… But unfortunately there will be many more…

These disturbing numbers are provided by Wikipedia. It is too difficult to accept the fact that murders in U.S. educational institutes are not an exception, but rather a horrifying tendency.

It is the most frequently discussed subject in America. Mass school shootings happen so frequently, that there even has been created a bullet-proof blanked for kids. It sounds like an irony, people started making money on parents who are afraid of losing their children.

We are the ones to blame

Who is responsible for transforming strongholds of knowledge fun and safety into places associated with danger and grief?

We all are.

We created a world, filled with anger, where young people struggle to grow physically and mentally healthy. Cinemas, television and internet are filled with violent content that negatively affects minds of children.

Kid's mind works differently from adult's. It is much more impressionable and vulnerable, and when it is surrounded by images, videos and articles about violence, it is doomed to get wretched.

In the past, it was much easier for parents to control, what their children see or hear. But with dawn of new technologies and internet, when every home has unlimited access to content of any kind, things became more complicated.

It would be great, if every mom and dad could be there for their kids and constantly guide them through childhood and adolescence. But this is impossible due to list of reasons, so young people have to deal with everything on their own.

We should be there for them

The realities are sad, and we have to combine all our strength to change world for the better.

As was mention earlier, it is unwise and even impossible to demand parents to always keep an eye on everything their kids do. Nevertheless there is a lot they can do.

Technologies did not bring us only bad things. They gave us a lot of opportunities to improve every aspect of our life, including parenthood.

The fact, that almost every kid has their own smartphone since early years, gives them not only access to the world of information. It also may be used to help parents in improving process of their upbringing.

You are not alone

Every country’s government does its best to fight internet violence and inappropriate content. Various laws, restricting and banning information as well as harsh penalties for their disobeying have been constantly introduced since 1995.

Teams of professionals work every day to make web a safe place.

But once again, to fight this war we need more than that. It is obvious, that government by itself is unable to prevent each and every case of minors encountering obscene information.

Families should take action as well. And they do.

Parental control apps for example, are a serious trend today, they allow parents in some way to be there for their children.

They can control their kid’s activities online from wherever they are and prevent anything bad happen to them.

It has been already proven, that this kind of protection works, the market is overfilled with various applications of the kind, that meet needs of different families. For example.

And it is great, especially considering that nearly 50% of adults are already using such software.

They allow to monitor what kids are watching and block any violent, pornographic or other inappropriate materials.

Buts there an ultimate solution to the problem? Absolutely not.

When it comes to parenting there are no excess measures, as no one might ever know where children might encounter danger.

It is our duty as parents, as adults to help and protect them. Only we can do it.

Stay safe, and be there for them.