The Los Angeles Times – Sonali Kohli
“There are about 50,000 students in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, and even more in the surrounding cities. Many of those students spent the latter half of Wednesday on lockdown; some were in school close to the Inland Regional Center, where a mass shooting left 14 people dead and 21 wounded. Parents struggling to make sense of a traumatizing situation themselves must now help their children cope. “Even as adults we don’t understand fully what took place and why,” said Brett Nelson, a Cal State San Bernardino professor and the coordinator of the university’s school psychology program. Here are tips from Nelson and other experts in San Bernardino about how to talk about the shooting with your children.”(more)