It Wasn’t Me: A Millennial’s Perspective on School Shootings
Reflecting on my youth, I can recall many of my previous classmates who had absent parents, less-than-ideal home lives, access to guns, and were enrolled […]
Thoughts on the Parkland Shooter’s Sentencing
Today the fight against school shootings is marked by the recent judgment and sentencing of the Parkland School Shooter. Whatever our idea of justice is […]
How to deal with anxiety related to mass shootings?
“With fear and anxiety, I dropped my children at school that next morning, having to convince myself repeatedly during the day that what I imagined […]
Collective Trauma and Response
These repeated mass school shootings over the last 20 years have left our society in a sort of paralysis. Many wonder how we can move […]
When School Violence is a Cancer
We believe that if we treat school shootings as cancer in our society, we may be able to mirror the medical model of disease prevention. […]
Is every school’s violent threat the same?
We live in a time of uncertainty due to the ongoing gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been over 468 mass […]
THE DREAD OF CHANGE
Separation Anxiety When I was fourteen, I was sent to study abroad; suddenly, leaving my close-knit family and the familiar environment felt like a cataclysmic […]
Shrink Box Back-2-School Guide (Pandemic Version)
“Never in history has it been so hard to decide what to do with our children’s education as it is right now.” Coronavirus came suddenly, […]
Yo, Mi Máscara y Yo
Nunca en un millón de años pude imaginarme una vida con la boca cubierta. Hijo de la salsa y primo de la rebelión, adoptado por […]
Respuesta de Shrink Box a la Academia Americana de Pediatría
La pandemia global del COVID19 ha afectado a nuestras comunidades y hogares. Cada día aprendemos más de este virus, es importante recordar que estamos enfrentando […]