{"id":426,"date":"2019-02-24T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/?p=426"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T01:26:36","slug":"a-few-sleepless-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"A few sleepless nights…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the Florida school shooting, I have woken up a few times in the middle of the night and walked up to my children\u2019s rooms. As I saw them fast asleep, I thought of those parents who lost their sons and daughters in what was once an inconceivable event, but has, in recent times, become a somewhat usual occurrence in the schools of today. I\u2019ve been troubled — as a parent, as a teacher and as a human being. I know I share the same sentiments as everyone reading this.<\/span><\/p>\n

These kinds of events lead us to thinking of the why<\/b>, and while we all are entitled to our opinions, there has to be a plan in place to fix this broken part of our societal structure. I am of the opinion that the common man who is not in military or armed forces should not have such ease of access to firearms. While this isn\u2019t the only matter of concern, here’s something I have been thinking, only that someone else said it before me about the “guns don’t kill people, people do” argument: well cars don’t kill people either but we have excellent car control laws to limit people killing themselves and others and when that fails we have mandatory insurance to provide coverage for losses incurred<\/i> (excerpt from another Facebook user\u2019s comment<\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s like that touchy technology topic… kids and gadgets. Technology isn’t bad but unless we have rules and consequences laid out for our kids, technology can be misused or overused. If we set proper guidelines and train kids to utilize technology as a tool, they can become developers and programmers and engineers and scientists or just even prepare sophisticated documents for school and college. <\/span><\/p>\n

So then it all comes down to parenting or the lack of it. It comes down to community and our moral values. It comes down to what I read a long time ago: The difference between a successful person and the one who isn’t — is what they do in their free time. It\u2019s about the company you keep and the books you read. It\u2019s about manners and ethics, and about social consciousness. It\u2019s about people getting so busy that they forget to stop and reflect. It\u2019s about the lack of connections and the ongoing race with ourselves to reach an unknown destination. It\u2019s about confusing our goals with finding contentment. It\u2019s about taking all that time trying to change everyone instead of first fixing ourselves. It\u2019s about not being available for our children because we are so busy trying to build them a material world without building them and their mindsets first.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have answers or solutions but I want to be part of the change as much as you all do. I hope that as a teacher I don\u2019t ever have to barricade my classroom doors and protect my students. I hope all our children can go to school to learn and mingle blissfully with their peers without fear of undesirable intruders. This is as real as it gets, but guess what, if we take ownership of this world we call ours, then perhaps we can experience the change we\u2019re looking for.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the Florida school shooting, I have woken up a few times in the middle of the night and walked up to my children\u2019s rooms. As I saw them fast asleep, I thought of those parents who lost their sons and daughters in what was once an inconceivable event, but has, in recent times, become…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purehearts.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}