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How to parent other children after losing one to violence

My son died in a school shooting and now I cannot send my other children to school without panic attacks, but they need normal life and I do not know how to give them what I cannot feel.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Trauma shatters the parent's ability to believe in safety, making it impossible to offer children the security they need.

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