What Kids Can Do
26th March 2018
What teens and younger student can do is treat each other with courtesy and respect. Most school shooters are fatherless boys who have been ostracized by their peers. While students can’t prevent divorce, they can reach out to their peers. This can be as simple as sitting with someone at lunch or including them in one’s won group. Basically, children befriending other children.
Unfortunately, being a decent human being doesn’t garner media attention. Ironically, what does get this attention is the same kind of narcissism and inflated sense of self-importance that leads to children being ostracized and humiliated by their peers.
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Whether we are children in school or adults in the public square, we can’t befriend each other unless we first grant each other at least the possibility of goodwill.
So what can kids do? Stop imitating those adults who assume the worst in those who disagree with them.