Replying to @thats_close_enough Americans will spend $200 on a bulletproof backpack for their 8-year-old and call that normal. Not alarming. Not dystopian. Just... normal. "Better safe than sorry." "Every little bit helps." "At least I'm doing something." You know what else you could do? Move to a country where bulletproof backpacks don't exist because they're not needed. My kids go to school in Portugal with regular backpacks. Because the threat they're designed to protect against doesn't exist here. Not because Portugal has better security. Because Portugal doesn't have a mass shooting problem. The fact that an entire industry exists to profit off your fear should tell you everything about how broken the system is. But instead of leaving the system, you're buying products to survive within it. That's not protection. That's acceptance. Link in bio when you're ready to stop accepting this as normal. 🆘🇺🇸
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When we lived in the United States, I remember when my kids school announced all of the precautions that they were going to have in the classrooms in the event of a shooter. They talked about how they had these disposable bathroom things in a bucket that they were going to keep in a closet. And they required us to bring in some comfort supplies that they were going to keep in bins in the classroom in the event of a shooter. And they also required us to write them a letter that was like a comforting letter in the event that they had to stay trapped in their classroom when one of these emergencies was happening. Now there's been an entire industry created around school shootings. I mean, not just bulletproof glass, but they've got rooms, entire safe rooms that you can pull out of the corner. They've got all sorts of locking mechanisms and ways to wedge the door shut. They've got products for our children, including bulletproof sweatshirts, bulletproof backpack shields that they can keep in their backpack to protect them from an active shooter in their school. I read this post one time on social media of a mother who was so proud of her son and how he responded to the active shooter drill at his school, where she was bragging about how with the fake gunmen, the teacher acting as a gunman came to his classroom, her son jumped on the guy and started wailing on him. And she just thought that was hilarious. She was giving him accolades for how brave he was. And the comments were all just so positive. They were all talking about how proud they were of this little boy for his actions. And as I read that, I was just sad and felt terrible that the coping mechanism of a parent is that they have to think about how wonderful it is that their child would go attack a shooter. But we shouldn't have to think about how our child would respond in those situations to begin with, letting our kids go through this trauma and finding all these ways to justify that trauma by creating an entire industry of products that we are saying is going to make it better instead of just fixing the problem. Anyways, I don't have to think about this so much anymore because I moved my kids out of the United States five years ago, but it is still just as devastating to watch these school shootings happening on the news from afar because they happen so often. But if you're ready to leave the United States and get your kids to a school where that will not happen, you can work with me one on one and there's links in my bio to do that.
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