How can counselors and family members help young people who have faced this kind of tragedy?
We don’t want to feed the fear; we don’t want to make it worse. So that means that we want to provide as much security and safety and normalcy as we can. That will reduce the fear. And to listen to their kids, support their kids and not give their kids advice. Tragedies are not a time for advice; they’re a time to listen, support. How could the two boys who committed these crimes become so alienated, yet no one seemed to recognize that they needed help? There were people that recognized it; there almost always are. The issue isn’t that they don’t recognize it; the issue is that they don’t do anything about it. We have in our country what some people call the “Kitty Genovese phenomenon;” we stand around and watch but we don’t intervene, even though we know something terrible has happened. In my limited understanding of the Colorado tragedy, there were a number of people who were aware these kids were behaving in unusual ways, amassing weapons, talking about things they would do. They ju
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