The Parkland School Shooting

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Mar 15

A Crisis within A Crisis

A group of high-school students holding up signs during a protest that read “Fear has no place in school.” and “Thoughts and prayers don’t save lives. Gun reform will.”

There is actually a much bigger crisis now, a crisis within the crisis, and that is the assault on children’s development and the expression of their lifelong potential. The expression of developmental potential (at the genetic level) in each and every one of us, depends on the context in which we grow and learn, on the environments and relationships we experience. Genes are chemical followers, packages of proteins that are triggered to expression by the context of children’s lives. Fear and the feeling of being unprotected are toxic to the developing brains and health of children.

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